[Solved] Xp3 to xp2 after slipstream installation

I installed an xp-sp3 using a slipstream cd (xp-sp2 + sp3 update). Thus, I can't roll back to sp2.

How can I switch to an sp2 environment without reinstalling from scratch?

Why would you want to roll back the SP?

Go to the device manager. Are there any conflicts (yellow !)?
start-->control panel-->system-->hardware tab-->device manager

Look in the network connections. Is your connection listed? Does it show as 'connected'?

What kind of network connection are you using?

Is your connection listed in Network Connections?

I'm currently working on a RAID pb. I'll come back to you as soon as i've settled this.

Yes. Am using an ASUS RAID 1 microprogrammed feature and all operations became sluggish once I connected an external eSATA disk to the MB plug. Looks as if the RAID feature was trying to use the external disk as a RAID disk.

I don't recall exactly. It was recognized by the system, however. All operations under W7 were sluggish: mouse cursor would freeze a few seconds and then react, opening a file was quite lengthy, etc.

I stopped the pc, disconnected the eSATA drive and rebooted several times. At one point, I couldn't even get past the ASUS splash screen. Finally, after several attempts, when the ASUS RAID config screen appeared, the two original RAID disks were displayed as DEGRADED although this feature had been running perfectly for weeks. I let things run for about 6 hours (500GB disks, not full). To no avail.

When I disconnected one of the RAID disks and rebooted, the other was still labelled as DEGRADED, but everything was working fine.

I managed to get things rolling again without rebuilding the RAID environment, at least for the time being.

And I finally got a connection through xp-sp3 using a Digitus wifi Network adapter (RTL8188SU), so I won't need to go back to xp-sp2.

Thank you for your help.

One of the reasons for the bad ADSL connection (the on and off bit) is that I had plugged the WiFi network adapter in a USB extension hub. Once I plugged the adapter directly into a pc usb hub, things worked all right. That's with xp-sp3.

Things worked ok under sp2. Problems started to pop up after the upgrade to sp3.

This explanation is not valid for the laptop where an integrated WiFi card is used and worked fine under sp2. Problems here also started after the upgrade to sp3.