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15-May-2008, 09:20 PM #106
I downloaded it a day or two ago, but have yet to install it.

I'd like to be able to be here for the whole thing, so I'd like to plan the time accordingly.

How long would you all guess it would take to install on a 2 GHz Northwood P4 box? I only ask because I hear it takes a lot longer than other service packs. I don't want to have to run away from it when it's 1/2 done.
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15-May-2008, 09:50 PM #107
I downloaded the ~316MB version. Installation took about 10 minutes on an AMD Athlon X64 3800+ with 2GB RAM. Not really long at all.
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15-May-2008, 10:16 PM #108
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I have successfully installed SP3 on 3 of my machines, two intel and one AMD. Today I installed it on my aunt's computer Hewlett Packard AMD machine, and it has a constant reboot. Keeps looping, apparently this is a problem with Hewlett packard/Emachine computers with AMD chips. The short answer I read was that at the factory they use an intel based image when installing XP on AMD machines this causes a conflict. As of May 15th today, Microsoft doesn't have a fix for it. There is info about how to prevent this from happening, one of Microsoft's former security managers had posted a script file that checks and fixes the conflict pre-SP3 install. However if it happens that you have already installed it and got the Reboot bug...ah I mean feature, the only way I've found is to uninstall the service pack through the recovery console. I haven't tried this yet so I'm hoping it will work. All my other machines that I own work great. Seems to be an isolated thing with HP machines with AMD processors.
If yours is the HP dueling Intel/AMD chipset problem, try starting the Recovery consol and typing disable intellppm . . then restart
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15-May-2008, 10:22 PM #109
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I downloaded the ~316MB version. Installation took about 10 minutes on an AMD Athlon X64 3800+ with 2GB RAM. Not really long at all.
Sounds like the same computer i just finished installing SP3 on ... Really must be an isolated problem with computers using AMD processors. No problem and was around the 10 minute mark to install as well ...
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15-May-2008, 10:24 PM #110
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I downloaded the ~316MB version. Installation took about 10 minutes on an AMD Athlon X64 3800+ with 2GB RAM. Not really long at all.
Oh, okay, I had been under the impression that it took a good 1/2 hour or more. On this P4, I'd wager on 15 minutes or so then, on my 1.13 GHz PIII-M lappy, I'd say maybe 20 minutes or more. I downloaded the Admin install as well, since I have to update 4 machines. Probably do it tomorrow. Kinda tired tonight and don't want to deal with restoring an image if it fails miserably for some reason.
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15-May-2008, 10:49 PM #111
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If yours is the HP dueling Intel/AMD chipset problem, try starting the Recovery consol and typing disable intellppm . . then restart
Thanks Rich, I'll try that, I'll let you know what happens.
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17-May-2008, 09:18 AM #114
Installed on my desktop, running flawlessly. Took about 12 minutes.

Eventually, I'll install it on the other two desktops and my laptop.
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18-May-2008, 08:50 AM #115
For some reason it wont install on mine, neither will the SP2.

I've got it on the automatic updates and it tries to install them every time I switch my PC off. I have also tried to do it manually and it still wont work

Any ideas whats wrong?
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18-May-2008, 04:04 PM #116
I installed SP3 almost 2 weeks back and the only issue is that I couldn't find any diiference from SP2, everything looks the same.
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18-May-2008, 04:20 PM #117
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Service Pack 3 is not installed on my computers but i have recieved an automatic update from Windows Sercurity Center yesterday morning and will untill the lifecyle runs out for Windows XP product plain and simple.

I believe you have misunderstood the point of this article. If you read my posting under that posting you will get a better understanding of what Microsoft has done. As well i'm sure you know that article was not an official release from Microsoft, but does give you an idea of what has happened with the extention of time.
I'm not sure where you get the idea I misunderstood anything. I wrote that the article stated SP3 will be needed if one wants to continue to receive XP updates until 2014. This does NOT mean SP3 needs to be installed today but at some point it will need to be installed. I didn't see your post in that other thread until just now but I also don't see how you got the idea I misunderstood anything.

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18-May-2008, 08:57 PM #118
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For some reason it wont install on mine, neither will the SP2.

I've got it on the automatic updates and it tries to install them every time I switch my PC off. I have also tried to do it manually and it still wont work

Any ideas whats wrong?
Almost surely a combination of sypware, trojans and junkware keeping SP2 from being installed, and as long as it is not install, it will likely only get worse.

You might consider backing up your data, wipeing the hard drive and reinstalling XP, followed immediately by SP3
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19-May-2008, 07:56 AM #119
There is really nothing more to SP3 then a bunch of updates put into one huge one. If you keep up with Windows Update you don't need to get SP3.

Dell Desktop Status: The desktop is doing good. I installed some application and they seem to be working fine.
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19-May-2008, 10:33 AM #120
WIthout SP2, Stinkytoes is not going to be able to keep up with updates , ,
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