{"id":461,"date":"2008-01-06T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/06\/windows-xp-sp3-beta-note-the-beta-part\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T00:00:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T07:00:28","slug":"windows-xp-sp3-beta-note-the-beta-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2008\/01\/06\/windows-xp-sp3-beta-note-the-beta-part\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP SP3 Beta, Note The &#8220;Beta&#8221; Part."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew it might happen, but I did it anyway. On many occasions, I tend to place myself at the the cutting edge and the bleeding edge of technology. In this case, it is all about Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta. Yes, I know that it is a Beta release. Yes I read through Microsoft&#8217;s notes regarding the beta release. I told myself, &#8220;What could go wrong? Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta is a collection of security patches and then some. Nothing is gonna go wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first install on a relatively new computer encounters zero problems so far. The second computer also encounters zero problems to date. So I installed SP3 on a freshly installed Windows XP with SP2 on a Gateway laptop. Everything seems to be working normally with the exceptions of the audio driver. For some reasons, the system wouldn&#8217;t load the audio driver. I tried to reinstall the audio driver, but it wouldn&#8217;t install at all. OK, that&#8217;s just a minor setback, but it&#8217;d be a lot nicer to have audio on the laptop. After an hour of troubleshooting, it appeared that there&#8217;s some incompatibilities with Windows XP SP3 Beta and RealTek HD Audio driver. I then fresh install Windows XP with SP2 on the Gateway laptop to get it properly working again. No SP3 for this laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Some friends called me and told me that their computer was not working. I finally got to their place and work on the computer. Found out that many things went wrong with this Compaq computer. I tried system restore, but it was not much help. After uninstalling and re-installing device drivers and applications, the computer is working again. Took me a good 3 hours to get that computer up and running again; without having to reinstall the system. For some reasons, I had the idea on installing Windows XP SP3 Beta on this computer. It took a little bit over 30 minutes for SP3 installations, and the computer rebooted. Then the computer rebooted. Then it rebooted. Then it rebooted. Obviously, it was a bad idea to install Windows XP SP3 Beta on this system. I managed to boot windows into Safe Mode, and uninstall SP3 Beta.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson is that Windows XP SP3 Beta is still a &#8220;Beta&#8221;. It still has some kinks to be worked out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew it might happen, but I did it anyway. On many occasions, I tend to place myself at the the cutting edge and the bleeding edge of technology. In this case, it is all about Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta. Yes, I know that it is a Beta release. 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