P4P800-E Deluxe and WinXP SP2?

[Peter Wagner]

Hi

I've installed the WinXP SP2 on my machine (Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Northwood).
Unfortunately the system hangs after the installation. :-(

Ther're same configurations which runs after the SP2 installation?

TIA
p

 

[Ghostrider]

Hi

I've installed the WinXP SP2 on my machine (Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Northwood).
Unfortunately the system hangs after the installation. :-(

Ther're same configurations which runs after the SP2 installation?

TIA

Not really enough information. When Windows XP fails
after an update such as installing a Service Pack, the
problem is due to the Operating System and not the
hardware. The exception would be incompatible hardware
or hardware configured incorrectly at the time when the
update (or SP) was installed. And, BTW, are both systems
exactly the same in all aspects, including configuration,
setup, hardware revision numbers, etc.?

 

[Peter Wagner]

Peter Wagner wrote:

Not really enough information. When Windows XP fails
after an update such as installing a Service Pack, the
problem is due to the Operating System and not the
hardware. The exception would be incompatible hardware
or hardware configured incorrectly at the time when the
update (or SP) was installed. And, BTW, are both systems
exactly the same in all aspects, including configuration,
setup, hardware revision numbers, etc.?

Thanks.
But I don't understand that, then now my system runs rock-stable. :-(

p

 

[Bob]

P,
I installed sp2 on mine and have had few problems. Had to disable the
firewall to make all things run. Other then that all is well.
Bob

 

[Barry Watzman]

Instead of disabling the firewall, you should configure it for the
particular programs that didn't work with it "out of the box".

 

[Pete D]

Or like many others disable the WinXP firewall and use Zone Alarm Pro like
we always have.

 

[Ron Reaugh]

Or like many others disable the WinXP firewall and use Zone Alarm Pro like
we always have.

Or better is to use SP2's firewall + good virus scanner + good spyware
scanner and discard ZA. Enable Automatic Updates.

 

[Pete D]

Or better is to use SP2's firewall + good virus scanner + good spyware
scanner and discard ZA. Enable Automatic Updates.

No thanks, I will choose those updates and stay with Zone Alarm Pro.

 

[Ron Reaugh]

No thanks, I will choose those updates and stay with Zone Alarm Pro.

A mistake for the general user community and it requires another third party
OS support app(ZA).

 

[Nom]

A mistake for the general user community and it requires another
third party OS support app(ZA).

Seconded.

There's no reason to install yet more Third Party software on your machine
(and low-level OS-hook software at that !), when the built-in Firewall works
just fine !

 

[Nom]

Or like many others disable the WinXP firewall and use Zone Alarm Pro
like we always have.

What do you gain from that approach ?

 

[Ron Reaugh]

Seconded.

There's no reason to install yet more Third Party software on your machine
(and low-level OS-hook software at that !), when the built-in Firewall works
just fine !

Precisely.

SP2's Firewall + Automatic Updates + good virus scanner + good spyware
checker makes for a rather safe computing environment. Outgoing firewall
checking is NOT needed.

 

[Noozer]

There's no reason to install yet more Third Party software on your
machine

Precisely.

SP2's Firewall + Automatic Updates + good virus scanner + good spyware
checker makes for a rather safe computing environment. Outgoing firewall
checking is NOT needed.

You really are an idiot...

- A firewall is not a bad thing, but only protects against direct attacks
coming into your PC.
- Automatic updates are evil. They can break just as easily as protect a
system.
- Virus scanners and Spyware scanners can only catch what they already know
about. So a LARGE amount of people have to be infected and reported before
either of these will do any good at all.

To suggest that all the above are great to have, and then suggest that an
outgoing firewall isn't necessary is just plain WACKO!

 

[Ron Reaugh]

You really are an idiot...

Who is such has become entirely obvious to most around here.

- A firewall is not a bad thing, but only protects against direct attacks
coming into your PC.
- Automatic updates are evil.

IDIOT!

 

[Jake]

how bout no firewall (ive never had a problem)

Seconded.

There's no reason to install yet more Third Party software on your machine
(and low-level OS-hook software at that !), when the built-in Firewall
works just fine !

 

[Haggard the Horrendous]

What do you gain from that approach ?

Well, in my case (W98SE), it caught the trojan that M$ installed along
with the drivers for their MM keyboard that kept trying to call out.

 

[Nom]

You really are an idiot...

Er, why ?

- A firewall is not a bad thing, but only protects against direct
attacks coming into your PC.
Precisely.

???

- Automatic updates are evil. They can break just as easily as
protect a system.

They protect a system approximately one billion times more than they break
it.

To compare level of breakage to level of protection, is just loonacy.

- Virus scanners and Spyware scanners can only catch what they
already know about.
Poppycock.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=antivirus+heuristics

So a LARGE amount of people have to be infected
and reported before either of these will do any good at all.

Moot point - there's no alternative.

To suggest that all the above are great to have, and then suggest
that an outgoing firewall isn't necessary is just plain WACKO!

They are, and it's not.

If you need you're Firewall to stop OUTGOING traffic, then you're ALREADY
infected !

Irrelevent of whether you have ANY of the above, YOU ARE INFECTED ! Your
security policy has a 100% failure rate !

 

[Nom]

how bout no firewall (ive never had a problem)

Only an option if you keep bang up-to-date with Windows' Security Fixes -
otherwise, your time will come

 

[Nom]

Well, in my case (W98SE), it caught the trojan that M$ installed along
with the drivers for their MM keyboard that kept trying to call out.

You appear to have a bad case of Paranoia-Disease

 

[Haggard the Horrendous]

You appear to have a bad case of Paranoia-Disease

Paranoia? You want a copy of the logs detailing an EMail exchange with
M$ where they admit they installed a routine on my computer that calls
out, that that portion of the software didn't ask my permission to
install, that there's no way to disable it or prevent the installation
, and that they don't have a fix for the problem? And there's no way
to prevent it from calling out except for telling ZA not to allow it.
Oh, and they never said *why* it was calling out.