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dthscythe

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Patched Windows XP on PC fucked up in 1 second
« on: 21 September 2004, 14:30 »
Well, I know that u get a direct shot of viri on your pc if windows xp isn't patched. So I decided to directly upgrade every part there  is of my version. Everything went ok, but then I started to play games. If anyone is familiar with the I/O and IRQ conflicts between BIOS and Windows XP SP2, you know what I mean, for the others a short explaination: I start to play any game, yes even the old dos games, which should run normally on my pc, I even start up graphical editors, like flash mx, and after 20 minutes my pc crashes... due to an conflict of hardware access between windows xp SP2 and bios. However that conflict only started when I installed my upgraded version of windows xp! I wanted to downgrade it back, but I only could throw SP2 away. I wanted to put a older verion on windows xp, bat I can't, because the "I lose all files and configs", yeah sure...  So what this means is, is that microsoft didn't care about the hardware conflicts and repatched it so it could go nicely with the older bios I have. No instead they force me now to flash it with a newer version of 29.00$ which I ain't gonna do due to the *make an error and bye mainboard* warning.

Anyway, yes, windows XP upgraded is fucked up too

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Patched Windows XP on PC fucked up in 1 second
« Reply #1 on: 21 September 2004, 19:01 »
I had even weirder problems with a Windows XP PC (not at home    ;)   ).
After I installed patches that belonged to SP2, I had lots and lots of errors, also hardware related, and Windows Update didn't even work!

Conclusion: Microsoft gives you the following options
  • use an insecure, but a bit useable Windows XP
  • use a very buggy, but fully upgraded Windows XP
[ September 21, 2004: Message edited by: Refalm / BOB ]


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Patched Windows XP on PC fucked up in 1 second
« Reply #2 on: 21 September 2004, 21:48 »
Microsoft seem to encourage the option not to use Microsoft bugware!

  ;)  

Microsoft is the greatest advocate for Open Source Software I know.

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« Reply #3 on: 1 October 2004, 12:08 »
Never had a problem. Could it be that you have a shitty BIOS?
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« Reply #4 on: 1 October 2004, 21:51 »
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JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder: Never had a problem. Could it be that you have a shitty BIOS?


Nope... Windows XP likes to throw lots of hardware on the same IRQ, totally ignoring the BIOS settings.