XP SP3 Released - Page 4

BillT · #46 May 10th, 2008, 04:48 AM

Ho-KAy Here is the Microsoft URL number for the actual ISO Image page.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

If you type "SP3 ISO Image in the MS XP "GO" Box it takes you there from the original page

As I said before, it is a 544.9 Mb download and at a DSL 760 Kb download speed, it takes about 1 hour and 37 Min.

Here is what MS Says,

Quick Details
File Name: xpsp3_5512.080413-2113_usa_x86fre_spcd.iso
Version: 1
Knowledge Base (KB) Articles: KB936929
Date Published: 5/6/2008
Language: English
Download Size: 544.9 MB
Estimated Download Time: 22 hr 9 min 56K
1 hr 37 min @ 760 Kb.

mattpg1 · #47 May 10th, 2008, 05:35 AM

Thanks BillT.

In the page linked in the above post it says: "Note: Customers running Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) are advised to install a hotfix for a Microsoft Dynamics RMS issue prior to installing Windows XP SP3."

When I read that XP SP3 had the RMS problem on a news site I thought Microsoft might include a fix in an updated version of SP3 since they made changes to the RC's without counting them as new RC's.

Are they not going to do this?

BillT · #48 May 10th, 2008, 06:29 PM

Dunno...I only know what I read in the Newspapers

...err... Blogs

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mattpg1 · #49 May 12th, 2008, 07:38 AM

When I run the MD5 checksum on the ISO file I downloaded from the page linked to in post 46 I get...

308245853e5b231343ee17b36ffda1e6

When I run the SHA1 checksum on the ISO file I downloaded from the page linked to in post 46 I get...

8fa76ccea145d050fc6a506ffbdedfe53282e5b4

How about you?

BillT · #50 May 15th, 2008, 10:31 PM

I downloaded my copy of SP-3 direct from MS. It checked good with MD5 Checksum. I did not check with any other checksum software. In fact I checked just to be sure that I had a clean download.

mattpg1 · #51 May 16th, 2008, 01:17 AM

What? I didn't see where microsoft provided a MD5.

Dreadnought · #52 May 23rd, 2008, 05:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Madcow1974

I am having the AMD/XP-SP3 continuous reboots after installing XP-sp3. Now i know it isn't the HP issue that is causing it because i have the ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe MB and i circumvented the problem just as posted on various blog. that would be booting with a thumdrive plugged in since it seems to want an external drive attached. this makes no sense to me but what ever right if it works great, i can wait for a fix from ASUS. my problem now is that both IE and Firefox are loading slower than molasses in the middle of the north pole during a record low winter temp. not sure if it is SP3 (very likely since it happened on the first required reboot) or a trojan/malware. i pulled a new log from Hijackthis v2.0.2 and my hardware specs in hopes that someone can look at it and tell me if they see any thing. thanks.

you must have missed the large sticky post telling you specifically to NOT post HJT logs in this forum. could a mod move the previous post to the HJT forum, and erase this post afterwards? thanks in advance

oink · #53 May 26th, 2008, 06:28 AM

I've done two sp3s. One on a customersDell immediately after a fresh install on a computer that had suffered a dead HD. It worked perfectly. The other on my little POS AMD based HP (Pavilion a1400e) I just use to store my music. It would only boot into safe mode after the SP3 upgrade. I had to uninstall it. There is very little installed on the computer other than what came on it. I think just PSP8, Open Office and Zune software, and a pile of MP3s on a slave drive. I used the ISO from the MS site.

Qualanqui · #54 June 9th, 2008, 05:14 PM

Hello averyone, how'ya all doin'?

I am old enough to have my original WinXP cd, which I Autostreamered into a WinXP_SP1, in turn into a WinXP_SP2 when it was officially released.

The next course of action is to Autostream it into WinXP_SP3 yet, after a file comparison between the SPacks, I noticed that SP3 has practically all of the SP2 files; some updated, maybe a few replaced, and many that SP2 obviously did not have -could not possibly have, I should say.

So, after all is said and done...

Is SP3 a SP2.1, or a SP2 2.0, or is it really a SP3?
Would it make a difference if I autostream from WinXP_SP1 into a WinXP_SP3, or should I just practice safe intercomputing and go from WinXP_SP2 to WinXP_SP3?
Should I even bother if not deploying onto +100 systems like most of you in the cool-geek crowd?

Thank you all for your help.

**jtdoom** · #55 June 9th, 2008, 10:09 PM

Hi
You can slipstream the original "gold" XP to SP3 in one step.
That build will not have SP1.cab nor SP2.cab which saves space you may need to integrate a few other things..

((edit, you can safely remove SP1.cab and sp2.cab after integrating SP3.))
I have used autostreamer, nLite and the RVM integrator on various versions of XP and compared the result with araxis.
(winmerge is also quite capable.)
I've tested those slipstreamed "clean" builds and made those my baseline.
I slipstream mass storage, chipset, graphics, sound, lan and Wlan drivers to a copy of my baseline sources because Today's hardware installs are so much easier when you do that.
(a typical modern machine takes under 25 minutes from blanco drive to a complete XP setup with all drivers, after booting off a DVD. The sysprep guru will do this faster still.)

Qualanqui · #56 June 10th, 2008, 05:14 PM

Hola jtdoom. Gracias por la información.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jtdoom

Hi
You can slipstream the original "gold" XP to SP3 in one step.
That build will not have SP1.cab nor SP2.cab which saves space you may need to integrate a few other things..

Translation: I do not need to go WinXP to WinXP_SP1 then to WinxXP_SP3.

You mean directly form WinXP to WinXP_SP3?

Quote:

Originally Posted by jtdoom

((edit, you can safely remove SP1.cab and sp2.cab after integrating SP3.))

Ok... you lost me here... you mean, just delete them?

Quote:

Originally Posted by jtdoom

I've tested those slipstreamed "clean" builds and made those my baseline.
I slipstream mass storage, chipset, graphics, sound, lan and Wlan drivers to a copy of my baseline sources because Today's hardware installs are so much easier when you do that.

Am I right to assum you did not sliptream the drivers and other programs with Autostreamer? If so, what tool did you use?

Quote:

Originally Posted by jtdoom

(a typical modern machine takes under 25 minutes from blanco drive to a complete XP setup with all drivers, after booting off a DVD. The sysprep guru will do this faster still.)

Uuh... Wanna take it outside? To another forum I mean

; because this conversation may be astraying from this forum's topic, but if not, I can always come back here...

**jtdoom** · #57 June 10th, 2008, 06:19 PM

good suggestion.
You can post a new topic in an appropriate CTH forum.
I have put a few posts about this subject in the topic I link to in my signature, but that topic is in the wrong forum *, and it was more or less meant as a summary of things about setup what never fit in just ONE forum (It gets edited from time to time.. and I do remove posts to keep it under twohundred pages long..
(* it still resides in the win 98 forum.)

Neowin and MSFN have many members I see cruising over here, and I think it is time we have a good discussion on "what can be done by slipstreaming".
A nice summary will allways give credit to the people writing up good things with useful or essential information, and links to origins like Microsoft and manufactors (and other topics) will stay in when appropriate.
(The links sometimes break over time, and broken links are an annoyance.)

answers.
WHEN... when you did gold to sp1, then to sp2, then to SP3.
Or sp1 to sp3.
Or Sp2 to Sp3.
THEN, you can safely delete the sp1.cab and sp2.cab.

Before I posted, I verified and reverified those findings.
Verififaction was easy.
I did a gold to SP3 (I then checked presence of older sp*.cab) added mass/chips and ran ISO
I looked at an older build source that was gold to sp1 to sp2 to sp3 and it had mass/chips, and I removed the old SPx cabs, and ran the ISO. (Which means, I did not rely on hearsay.)
(EDIT I had to do some corrections for clarity.. I hope babelfish or google translate does not choke.

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