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Install without SP2

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Nyck

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Anybody running a system without SP2 installed? Microsoft acts like its the messiah, but my wifes computers seems to have some catostrophic failures if its on it due to some via agp system files and such.

Any body run their system without it?
 
Nyck said:
Anybody running a system without SP2 installed? Microsoft acts like its the messiah, but my wifes computers seems to have some catostrophic failures if its on it due to some via agp system files and such.

Any body run their system without it?
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i do. i have an A64 system running w/ SP1. (and all the updates, of course, but not SP2)

 
You can currently run without it....but there's a chance someone's working on a worm or virus that will affect your systems, but not mine.
Anyone in the IT field will tell you SP2 is necessary. If your having trouble loading it on a machine that's already running XP, clean the spyware off and try again.

I'm not trying to start a flame war here, but it's ben debated many times over and over, and each time, the result is, there's no good reason NOT to have SP2. All issues with SP2 can be easily resolved with a little research.
 
The via agp file problems sound like yuo need to download updated chipset drivers
 
hulksterjoe said:
The via agp file problems sound like yuo need to download updated chipset drivers
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Yep, there are several drivers that didn't like SP2 because of some of the changes to the core.

SP2 is not too far like a new OS version, IE drivers that worked on one may or may not work on the other. It's like S2K3, you can use XP drivers, most of the time, but not all...

edit: I'm not sure if there is a specific comaptiblity problem to the VIA chipset, just that those compatibility issues exist with some drivers/software.
 
Get the latest VIA drivers. I'm running XP SP2 on a VIA board without any driver problems. However, I am running the latest chipset drivers.
 
If you're doing a clean install, I don't see why you shouldn't integrate SP2 into it. At the very least, I find SP2 to boot up much faster than earlier versions of XP (including the SP2 betas). The problem isn't Microsoft and SP2 anyway, it's Via and their sucky drivers.

That said, my friend runs SP2 on a VIA P4M266 based board, and hasn't had any issues with the latest drivers on.
 
SP2 includes AGP filters for VIA KTxxx chipsets up to KT400, so no drivers are needed.

*info grabbed from viaarena.com :D

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