How to apply SP3 to an Asus A8N SLI-Premium Mainboard based WinXP?

[Paolo Severin]

I am currently running WinXP + SP2 which is installed on a hardware with
Mainboard Asus A8N SLI-Premium.

Some month ago WinXP Service Pack 3 was released by MS.
However within a short time it turned out that there are heavy problems with this
SP 3 when applying it to a WinXP based on the mentioned Mainboard.

In the meantime some bugfixes resp. work around were released (as far as I heard).

Are these bugfixes/work around reliable?

Is there a detailed step-by-step tutorial on how to install SP3 WITH bugfix
on an existing SP2 system?
And how to fall back to SP2 in case that the upgrade is not working?

Paolo

 

[Grant]

I am currently running WinXP + SP2 which is installed on a hardware with
Mainboard Asus A8N SLI-Premium.

Some month ago WinXP Service Pack 3 was released by MS.
However within a short time it turned out that there are heavy problems with this
SP 3 when applying it to a WinXP based on the mentioned Mainboard.

In the meantime some bugfixes resp. work around were released (as far as I heard).

Are these bugfixes/work around reliable?

Is there a detailed step-by-step tutorial on how to install SP3 WITH bugfix
on an existing SP2 system?
And how to fall back to SP2 in case that the upgrade is not working?

Erm, this is a linux group, why ask here?

Grant.

 

[Bob I]

Erm, this is a linux group, why ask here?

Grant.

Erm, I think you missed the left turn a while back.

 

[Peter Finney]

I am currently running WinXP + SP2 which is installed on a hardware with
Mainboard Asus A8N SLI-Premium.

Some month ago WinXP Service Pack 3 was released by MS.
However within a short time it turned out that there are heavy problems with this
SP 3 when applying it to a WinXP based on the mentioned Mainboard.

In the meantime some bugfixes resp. work around were released (as far as I heard).

Are these bugfixes/work around reliable?

Is there a detailed step-by-step tutorial on how to install SP3 WITH bugfix
on an existing SP2 system?
And how to fall back to SP2 in case that the upgrade is not working?

Paolo

I installed SP3 without any problems (running as we speak) on this
SLI Premium system.


Peter Finney
Liphook
Hampshire
England

 

[Mike Bleiweiss]

Are these bugfixes/work around reliable?

Nope.

You're getting closer to a permanent solution though, seeing as how you
cross-posted this to a linux group.

Come on over to our party - the food's great and the beer is free.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Since you posted to comp.os.linux.hardware <snipped>

But _you_ did not post to a linux group - or if you did - multiposted...?
Welcome to "microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware"...

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[Horst Franke]

In Paolo Severin
wrote:

I am currently running WinXP + SP2 which is installed on a hardware
with Mainboard Asus A8N SLI-Premium.

Some month ago WinXP Service Pack 3 was released by MS.
However within a short time it turned out that there are heavy
problems with this SP 3 when applying it to a WinXP based on the
mentioned Mainboard.

NO Paolo, the problems resulted on using an "AMD CPU".

In the meantime some bugfixes resp. work around were released (as far
as I heard).
Are these bugfixes/work around reliable?

I think YES! Take care that the correct CPU will be supported!
The default SP3 setup looked for an Intel CPU -
so You would need to look for AMD setup/drivers and workarounds.

Is there a detailed step-by-step tutorial on how to install SP3 WITH
bugfix on an existing SP2 system?

Yes, I think so - if You follow the leads for an AMD CPU.

And how to fall back to SP2 in case that the upgrade is not working?

There is a fallback option.
But the problem of AMD CPUs is known as repetitive Reboots.
There're instructions how to overcome this.
Horst