Win XP Pro SP2 Problems

[jurgen36]

Today I received from Richmond Win XP Corp Ed. with service pack 2 included. Admitedly it was a Beta version. Anyway I installed it on my own machine. The installation went ok, no problems there. However after installation I could not access our high speed servers. Again no problem I just reinstalled all Intel drivers. However, I could not access the Internet at all. Everytime I tried it a blue screen came up error with unspecified error encountered dumping memory. After rebooting I lost my other 3 raid arrays and could not access them at all. I reinstalled all raid drivers, I even reinstalled Win XP sp2 making sure with the F6 key and the S command that all raid drivers were installed. No success. It only saw the C: SATA raid drivers. Ok I booted up in Win98 and Ghosted my backup array across, wiping out the new installation. Now all is ok again. I understand it was a beta version but I would like to know if anybody else had the same problems. Regards Jurgen

Jurgen

 

[jsauce]

That's the problems with betas you can never be quite sure what they will do when they are installed. Frankly with Microsoft you cannot even be sure the finals work. I'd stay away from the beta until its finished or install it on a test system.

John D. Saucier
jsauce@magicguild.com
Certified Technician
Network Administrator

 

[jurgen36]

I do agree with you. That is the reason I tested it on my own machine first before I had the programm installed on our 400 or so machines. I always have a complete backup from the day before, so no problems
Greetings

Jurgen

 

[jsauce]

Yeah you made a good move there with testing it first, but you would be suprised how many people do not do that first they simply assume it will work and end up screwing up their systems. I learned long enough when I was beta testing Windows 95 and 98 for microsoft that you simply cannot do that.

John D. Saucier
jsauce@magicguild.com
Certified Technician
Network Administrator