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Re: XP SP2 other than windows update

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ghali)
Tue Sep 7 13:04:14 2004

Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:01:31 -0700
From: Matt Ghali <mghali@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Matt Ghali <mghali@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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FWIW, SP2 rendered my Sony Vaio PCG-SR17 completely useless. From what
I can tell, it replaced the PCMCIA bridge driver (pcmcia.sys) with one
that does not work, and there is no way to "roll back" the driver to
the pre-XP2 one without rolling back the entire OS.

I am in an ongoing dialog with MS support trying to resolve the issue
and will post if
we discover anything significant. But for now, if your laptop uses a
Ricoh PCMCIA bridge chip, I'd suggest you hold off on SP2.

matto


On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 21:58:08 -0400, Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Fwiw, XP SP2 CDs are available at some PC retail outlets.  I picked one
> up from Best Buy late last week, and saw them again at a CompUSA over
> the weekend.  As with the download, ymmv.
> 
> -Jim P.

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