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WinXP SP2 RC2 is out...

Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:15 pm
by Max_T

Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:38 pm
by Krom
The day SP2 final comes out, I am downloading it then formatting my computer. (after I test it on a disposible XP install)

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:35 am
by Warlock
Krom wrote:The day SP2 final comes out, I am downloading it then formatting my computer. (after I test it on a disposible XP install)
im doing the same, mine needs it so bad cause i can get it to 100% reconnected to the domain with out looseing my user :|

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:39 am
by JMEaT
Yup SP2 will be a big change from SP1. It will probably get tested before going on my main machine.

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 9:31 am
by Tetrad
Not that I'd tell you to not test it beforehand, but SP2 has an utter assload of beta testers out there testing it right now. I haven't noticed any changes superficially since RC1, so my guess is that it's pretty stable, just waiting to catch all the minor bugs still not accounted for before public release.

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:12 am
by CDN_Merlin
I'll install it on my VMware copy of XP and test it there before putting it on my real PC.

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 12:28 pm
by suicide eddie
have been playing with it, fine so far but via ide drivers seem a little buggy with it (hyperion 51`s)

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 1:54 pm
by AceCombat
im going to test it on a POS Machine before i test it on my game box.

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 4:03 pm
by Teddy
so far sp2 suks for me... seems it dont care much for downloaded copy's of winxp :P

dont get me wrong, i do have a legit copy of winxp, i just prefer to use the corperate version that dont lock up every time i change hardware around. it took me 2 and a half weeks last time i used my legit copy before i had to start calling microsoft to get it activated. Now i dont know what i'll do...i really want to be able to use sp2 but i'm not sure it'll be worth it with as much as i swap out hardware...

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 4:04 pm
by fliptw
you using a FCK** key?

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:55 pm
by Teddy
Nop, microsoft has blocked out all the known keys that have been passed around on tradeing sites... at least as far as i have heard.

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:13 pm
by DCrazy
heh... try pronouncing FCKGW... Microsoft are Nazis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:50 pm
by Krom
I'm sure there is a solution out there teddy, actually I might already have it. ;) 30 seconds of google should be enough.

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:56 pm
by Max_T
there is a solution alright...bluesomething keysomething :)) generates something with xxx-640-xxxx and u'l be fine...anything with xxx-641 through 649-xxxxxxxxxxx won't work.

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:22 pm
by Tetrad
Max_T wrote:anything with xxx-641 through 649-xxxxxxxxxxx won't work.
oh?

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 10:43 am
by Admiral LSD
I had RC1 on here for a while but won't be in a hurry to install RC2 or even the final. Either DirectX 9.0a or 9.0b f*ck over one of my games (Freedom Force) and snce 9.0b is hard-wired into SP2, buh bye SP2.

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 12:34 pm
by Warlock
thats y there RCs just basicley Public Betas so there use if u want to.

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 1:33 pm
by suicide eddie
dont worry ted, m$ have said they have relaxed the hardware imaging for hardware changes.

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 2:08 pm
by AceCombat
why does XP have such a hissy fit with multiple hardware profiles, when 2k,9x and NT didnt have these problems?

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 6:41 pm
by Teddy
I hope so, since sp2 locked me out, i reinstalled my legal verson.... however since then i've changed out my 8x dvd rom and 40x cd-rw out for a 16x dvd rom and a dvd-rw, and i added a diffrent sound card. If it is still as strict as before... i'll find out soon enough.

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 6:53 pm
by fliptw
AceCombat wrote:why does XP have such a hissy fit with multiple hardware profiles, when 2k,9x and NT didnt have these problems?
its called activation.

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 8:48 pm
by AceCombat
fliptw wrote:
AceCombat wrote:why does XP have such a hissy fit with multiple hardware profiles, when 2k,9x and NT didnt have these problems?
its called activation.

so if you take a HDD out of one computer, put it in a different computer with different hardware, XP is going to have a hissy fit because it thinks its a new installation, i mean hell......everytime i see someone take a drive and move it to a new PC< it doesnt ask for a activation but it gives a real attitude problem with the new hardware and sometimes throws out BSOD failure errors because of the non-existant hardware.

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 10:42 pm
by Vindicator
AceCombat wrote:so if you take a HDD out of one computer, put it in a different computer with different hardware, XP is going to have a hissy fit because it thinks its a new installation
Thats about it, yeah. MS would really like for you to not fook about wit the parts once its installed.
i mean hell......everytime i see someone take a drive and move it to a new PC< it doesnt ask for a activation but it gives a real attitude problem with the new hardware and sometimes throws out BSOD failure errors because of the non-existant hardware.
Thats because the pirated corporate version doesnt have activation.

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 5:58 am
by Krom
Never mind you should remove all the hardware from device manager first (hint: safe mode).

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 6:09 am
by AceCombat
Krom wrote:Never mind you should remove all the hardware from device manager first (hint: safe mode).
oh i know how to deal with multiple hardware profiles, its just weird that everything before XP hardly gave you problems with multiple profiles, but XP is soo picky about it

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:32 am
by Warlock
AceCombat wrote: so if you take a HDD out of one computer, put it in a different computer with different hardware, XP is going to have a hissy fit because it thinks its a new installation, i mean hell......everytime i see someone take a drive and move it to a new PC< it doesnt ask for a activation but it gives a real attitude problem with the new hardware and sometimes throws out BSOD failure errors because of the non-existant hardware.
NT has allways done that silly. Nt4, Nt5, Nt5.1 and Nt5.2 (NT4, W2k, Xp, 2003) all do it cause it keeps people from takeing your dive putting it in a differnt system and getting your data. all though u can get the data by just slaveing the drive, but if the data is encripted then your not getting to it