I have had the past couple of days with installing my sound card and webcam,
joystick. Everytime I tried and rebooted a popup window would say that the
hardware was not properly installed and to reinstall. I did so several times
with no difference. I did a system restore to before my sp2 install and all
hardware installed trouble free. I have been trouble free since. I did have
to change my video card (Leadtek GeForce 5700LE A360 TD) is not Windows XP
compatible.
I have not reinstalled Windows XP2 as I fear that the troubles would come
back.

"Rob" <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have had the past couple of days with installing my sound card and
>webcam,
> joystick. Everytime I tried and rebooted a popup window would say that the
> hardware was not properly installed and to reinstall. I did so several
> times
> with no difference. I did a system restore to before my sp2 install and
> all
> hardware installed trouble free. I have been trouble free since. I did
> have
> to change my video card (Leadtek GeForce 5700LE A360 TD) is not Windows XP
> compatible.
> I have not reinstalled Windows XP2 as I fear that the troubles would come
> back.

Once again, I think this is specific to *your* machine. There are very few
if any reports of SP2 preventing the installation of new hardware.
You should not blame this on SP2. SP2 obviously exacerbated a pre-existing
problem on your computer.

Your computer is at significant risk without SP2, and you cannot get new
updates without SP2 installed.

I would recommend you do whatever it takes to find out the underlying cause
of your problem.
I have found that in situations like the one you are describing, a format
and fresh install of Windows (including SP2) will fix the problem. Make
sure you have the latest chipset and motherboard drivers for your system,
and use the latest drivers for your hardware (found on the manufacturers
website).

Bobby

I have just built my computer with all new hardware. I did have sp2 installed
and things were not to bad but my computer kept re-booting with various
errors, some hardware related.
I ran killdisk 3.0 and reformated and installed windows, then updated
windows with all updates. I then installed all other software and hardware.
The first time I installed hardware before updating windows. There was no
real difference except the the hardware seemed to install fine until I
rebooted.
I installed sp2 today but had to uninstall it as my computer was taking 2-3
minutes to boot up, and it ran very unstable. Not all sofware and hardware
drivers would load (DVD-rom, sound card, video card, raid controllers).
All hardware currently installed is windows xp compatible and their lates
drivers do recommend I install sp2.
My computer runs great with no reboots or errors with out sp2.
I would like to install sp2 but if my computer becomes unstable.

"NoNoBadDog!" wrote:

>
> "Rob" <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AFF6F61E-0CCE-45AB-8103-43786DF270E9@microsoft.com...
> >I have had the past couple of days with installing my sound card and
> >webcam,
> > joystick. Everytime I tried and rebooted a popup window would say that the
> > hardware was not properly installed and to reinstall. I did so several
> > times
> > with no difference. I did a system restore to before my sp2 install and
> > all
> > hardware installed trouble free. I have been trouble free since. I did
> > have
> > to change my video card (Leadtek GeForce 5700LE A360 TD) is not Windows XP
> > compatible.
> > I have not reinstalled Windows XP2 as I fear that the troubles would come
> > back.
>
> Once again, I think this is specific to *your* machine. There are very few
> if any reports of SP2 preventing the installation of new hardware.
> You should not blame this on SP2. SP2 obviously exacerbated a pre-existing
> problem on your computer.
>
> Your computer is at significant risk without SP2, and you cannot get new
> updates without SP2 installed.
>
> I would recommend you do whatever it takes to find out the underlying cause
> of your problem.
> I have found that in situations like the one you are describing, a format
> and fresh install of Windows (including SP2) will fix the problem. Make
> sure you have the latest chipset and motherboard drivers for your system,
> and use the latest drivers for your hardware (found on the manufacturers
> website).
>
> Bobby
>
>
>

Rob,
When Microsoft starts making computers and not just the OS, everything
will depend on compatability with the OS.
Something is just not compatable on your machine with SP2. That's not
said to point fingers. You can run SP1 and get security updates for it
without SP2. It is important to note that you are responsable for your
own security either way.
Best,
Treeman


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You can understand the frustration I have when I install windows and update
it then have a lot of problems with my computer. It took a while to come to a
trouble free computer as I do now. The main hardware conflict is with my
sound card (Sound Blaster Audigy). I am guessing it is with the taskbar
feature of the Audigy.
I have now uninstalled the taskbar and will attempt to reinstall sp2. I do
plan to keep at trying new things to find a solution to this problem. As to
it's cause I do not know.

"Treeman" wrote:

>
> Rob,
> When Microsoft starts making computers and not just the OS, everything
> will depend on compatability with the OS.
> Something is just not compatable on your machine with SP2. That's not
> said to point fingers. You can run SP1 and get security updates for it
> without SP2. It is important to note that you are responsable for your
> own security either way.
> Best,
> Treeman
>
>
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