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Gemma King wrote:
> "PC Medic" <NOT@home.net> wrote in message
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>>Anyone loaded XP SP2 to their Dimension 8300 yet?
>>Any side effects?
>
> Yes, I had more XP crashes in ten minutes than I've had over the last
> eighteen months (true).
>
> I read somewhere that you need to slipstream XP2 and do a clean
> reinstall...........gonna do that over the next week or so.
>
> Apparently just patching a running XP with SP2 won't work properly,
> something to do with SP2 not liking running processes.
This might be true in some cases, but certainly not across the board. I
updated my ThinkPad last weekend and my Dim 4550 this past weekend -
everything went very smoothly (best SP I can remember installing). I'm
rendering approx. 110 minutes of video in the background as I type here
- not a peep out of Pinnacle (so far, I'm the type who believes you
don't mention the no hitter until the game is over).
My situation might be helped by the facts that my hardware is relatively
new (Dim is the oldest - new 03/2003) and I had recently reinstalled Win
XP on them prior to the SP2 install.