Service Pack 3 for XP

[gnome]

Quote from dandxg:

It hosed my 3 year old Dell with single Pent 4, had to do an XP repair. On my newer Dell with dual AMD it works fine, it's slightly faster but the CPU runs a few Celsius higher

It's been 1 1/2 years on XP installs and I know I need a fresh re-install. I guess it's time to figure out how to use Acronis.

You need Acronis for AFTER your fresh install.. won't really do you any good on this one..

 

[DataCruncher]

Quote from osorico:

Laptops are notorious for requiring bios updates as OS's change (and/or get updated). Toshiba's site is the place to go. Same sort of thing happened when SP2 came out.

Osorico

will he be able to update the BIOS now, or is it too late?

 

[dandxg]

Quote from gnome:

You need Acronis for AFTER your fresh install.. won't really do you any good on this one..

Yes understood, I meant I have just been putting off fresh install as it's working and I haven't read up on how to use it yet.

 

[gnome]

Quote from dandxg:

Yes understood, I meant I have just been putting off fresh install as it's working and I haven't read up on how to use it yet.

Very simple GUI for about a half-dozen functions. You'll like it.

 

[PohPoh]

Word from the wife's IT guy at her office is that all the data on the computer was gone...

I'm suspicious of that - it seemed to only need a reinstall or a restore...

How could installing SP3 implode the hard drive?

I'm aces with my PC's so I'm kinda spaced how this whole thing happened...