hey guys

thanks for all the info. i knew sp2 could pose a few probs but i think im one of the lucky ones. no problems and downloaded in half an hr.

thanks for the info dlh.

Oh i recommend un-installing most programms if you can, because i had only a few programms working after installing it. Northn might not work after installing SP2 so be prepared.

Man i remember getting the green beta cd of SP2, it was going to be relesed in like 4 months... Mand that was the days when i had better.... Now i cant wait to get longhorn beta... :cheesy:

I don't know what version ZoneAlarm is at now, but according to a link posted earlier in this thread, versions 3.7 - 5.0.590 are not a good idea with SP2:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...t=windowsxpsp2

Thought I should mention that before everyone went to ZoneAlarm, thinking they were safe as far as a better firewall than SP2's, but still went ahead and upgraded to SP2, anyway, and found themselves with problems.

Have found that the ATI AIW Radeon 9200 driver I use (Catalyst 4.10) is not XP SP2 compatible (get a black screen about 30 secs. after log-in), and neither are any of the updated Catalysts from 4.11 and later, up to 5.5. Have heard it could actually require a motherboard BIOS flash, but haven't researched it thoroughly yet.

To that guy with the Win98 CD thing and partitioning the drive, if you are still monitoring this thread: Anytime you re-partition a drive you are going to be performing a "clean install" because your partition table is what tracks how your drive is set-up and how it sees the data, and re-doing this resets all of that, requiring a re-format that should have occurred during your XP installation (not required separately if installing XP from image or CD). All of your data previously will have been lost, along with programs, as you would have seen.

Strange, mine here work. If i remember i had read that u have to un-install it, and then istall the new one from ati, and not an update from your version...

Please tell me what ATI card and Catalyst version you are using. If you're using a Radeon AIW 9200, maybe I can do as you suggest so I can get it to work if you could tell me what Catalyst version to use - none of the others past 4.10, I believe, come out and say they support the 9200, even if it might be backward compatible from the later video cards. I'd just like to know what Catalyst is supposed to work before I do it, and if I have to uninstall my display driver and/or video controllers first, then that's just what I have to do (because an in-place upgrade was what I had been doing before, and indeed what I may need to stop doing to get it to work ).

I'll Make sure to keep it in mind!

Just a quick note for those of you who haven't done SP-2 and are still on a modem: :rolleyes:

I had to do the install over a modem (56K) and it took 7 HOURS! However, it lets you download in chunks, so you can go in for as many download sessions as you like. It worked fine for me, did about 4 different download sessions.

(If anyone in the "tech-guru" department knows any issues with this method, other than "get a DSL, ya dern fool", post away!)

This was in the very first post of this thread :
"Request a CD from Microsoft at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro.../winxpsp2.mspx Or
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm#o...e_pack_on_a_cd
Of course, this means waiting for delivery by snail-mail, but installation will be much quicker and you’ll have it if you ever need to reinstall Windows XP. Also, if you have dial-up, you won’t keep your line tied up for hours or have to worry about being disconnected (not that that ever happens, right?)."

It's free and only takes a week or two to get it. Then it's MUCH faster to install .

The other sensible solution for dial-up users is to get a friend with briadband to download the entire developers installation pack for SP2 and save it to CD.

Downloading it via dial-up is a last resort option, in my view.