Installing XP SP1 *without* hotfix q317277 ?

[Lauren Weinstein]

Greetings. A couple of years ago, after installing a seemingly minor
hotfix to XP (q317277) to fix occasional erroneous error messages at
boot time, the system in question started freezing up every few
minutes (it took considerable time and effort to make this connection,
however!) Turns out a lot of people have reported the same problem.

I removed the hotfix, the system stabilized, and the error messages
haven't been a problem.

I avoided installing SP1 out of concerns that the same "fix" would
find its way back into the system. Recently, since I required a new
patch that depends upon SP1, I decided to chance it.

No luck. As I had predicted, the system started freezing up again in
the same manner as before. I have now removed (more or less, there's
still a bit of instability) SP1 (and I just lucked out keeping the
system up long enough to accomplish that...)

But is there any way past this point? Is there any practical method
to install SP1 and then remove the negative effects of the equivalent
q317277 patch that obviously is included within SP1 itself, without
removing the remainder of SP1?

As it stands, this is something of a brick wall for an otherwise
perfectly good system. Any suggestions appreciated! I'd appreciate
copies of any responses to my e-mail address if possible. Thanks very
much.

--Lauren--
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[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

If you are indeed having some issues as you describe,
then wait until SP2 is released, which should be in a few
weeks.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| Greetings. A couple of years ago, after installing a seemingly minor
| hotfix to XP (q317277) to fix occasional erroneous error messages at
| boot time, the system in question started freezing up every few
| minutes (it took considerable time and effort to make this connection,
| however!) Turns out a lot of people have reported the same problem.
|
| I removed the hotfix, the system stabilized, and the error messages
| haven't been a problem.
|
| I avoided installing SP1 out of concerns that the same "fix" would
| find its way back into the system. Recently, since I required a new
| patch that depends upon SP1, I decided to chance it.
|
| No luck. As I had predicted, the system started freezing up again in
| the same manner as before. I have now removed (more or less, there's
| still a bit of instability) SP1 (and I just lucked out keeping the
| system up long enough to accomplish that...)
|
| But is there any way past this point? Is there any practical method
| to install SP1 and then remove the negative effects of the equivalent
| q317277 patch that obviously is included within SP1 itself, without
| removing the remainder of SP1?
|
| As it stands, this is something of a brick wall for an otherwise
| perfectly good system. Any suggestions appreciated! I'd appreciate
| copies of any responses to my e-mail address if possible. Thanks very
| much.
|
| --Lauren--

 

[Unknown]

Have you tried installing 317277 but turning off error reporting to Microsoft?
Systen---advanced---error reporting. I have the hotfix installed with error
reporting disabled and have no problems.

 

[Lauren Weinstein]

If you are indeed having some issues as you describe,
then wait until SP2 is released, which should be in a few
weeks.

I am not optimistic that this will help. SP2 presumably will be dependent
upon SP1 being installed, and seems unlikely to fix a problem that
is not relatively widespread, has never been officially ack'd by
MS, and may be limited to particular machines and/or BIOSes.
What's really needed is to undo the particular patch after SP1 has
been installed...

--Lauren--

 

[Lauren Weinstein]

Have you tried installing 317277 but turning off error reporting to Microsoft?
Systen---advanced---error reporting. I have the hotfix installed with error
reporting disabled and have no problems.

Error reporting to MS has always been off.

--Lauren--