windows xp sp3

[wanderin]

I recently updated to service pack 3, now every time I reboot or start up the
computer I get an error message that windows performed an invalid exception
no disk. also while downloading music from the net I get failed download
messages that the security storage for media player 11 is not working, I have
tried the re install of the security certificate or patch but sill get this
error. can someone tell me what I need to do to resolve these problems or do
I need to drop back to sp2?.

 

[db ´¯`·.. >]

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[Mark L. Ferguson]

Yes, drop back to SP2. There is no way to determine what will happen if you
simply install the final release of SP3 until you try it. No beta is
'fixable', it's only 'replaceable'. You agreed to this condition when you
installed it.

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[Ken Blake, MVP]

I recently updated to service pack 3,

No, you didn't. SP3 isn't available yet, and what you installed was a
pre-release test version of SP3.

now every time I reboot or start up the
computer I get an error message that windows performed an invalid exception
no disk. also while downloading music from the net I get failed download
messages that the security storage for media player 11 is not working, I have
tried the re install of the security certificate or patch but sill get this
error. can someone tell me what I need to do to resolve these problems or do
I need to drop back to sp2?.

No surprise in any of the above. When you install a pre-release test
version of software, problems are what you should *expect*. If
Microsoft didn't expect it to have problems, it would be a released
version, not a pre-release version.

 

[TaurArian]

Go back to SP2 and await the final version of SP3. SP3 is still beta.

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|I recently updated to service pack 3, now every time I reboot or start up the
| computer I get an error message that windows performed an invalid exception
| no disk. also while downloading music from the net I get failed download
| messages that the security storage for media player 11 is not working, I have
| tried the re install of the security certificate or patch but sill get this
| error. can someone tell me what I need to do to resolve these problems or do
| I need to drop back to sp2?.
| --
| wanderin
|

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I recently updated to service pack 3, now every time I reboot or
start up the computer I get an error message that windows performed
an invalid exception no disk. also while downloading music from the
net I get failed download messages that the security storage for
media player 11 is not working, I have tried the re install of the
security certificate or patch but sill get this error. can someone
tell me what I need to do to resolve these problems or do I need to
drop back to sp2?

Windows XP SP3 is not full release yet. It is "pre-release"... This means
"not finished, not supported" and "do not install on any machine you are
ready and willing to lose completely and/or rebuild from scratch without any
hope of ever recovering anything at all from it" <-- if that last quote
does not describe your situation - you made a mistake and you need to
correct it. ;-)

 

[wanderin]

thanks to all those who answered my question, this will teach me to closer
read the updates and not be in such a hurry