From: philo@privacy.net   
      
   On 03/23/2014 04:55 PM, Java Jive wrote:   
   > On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 07:55:52 -0500, philo <" philo"@privacy.net>   
   > wrote:   
   >>   
   >> You need to go back and read the original post. He had the same result   
   >> even when he used a non-sp3 version of XP   
   >   
   > Indeed, he did, and there are certainly aspects of his account that   
   > suggest a hardware problem, but there are equally certainly aspects   
   > that sound suspiciously like the well-known problem with SP3.   
   >   
   >> I am a computer refurbisher and  have literally worked on over 1000 XP   
   >> machines during the past ten years.   
   >>   
   >> Only once did I have a machine that did not function properly with SP3   
   >   
   > But how did you re-install the machines?  All the machines in this   
   > house bar the newest laptop have the same image, either in W2k form or   
   > as upgraded to XP.  If you once get a good SysPrep image in Ghost or   
   > equivalent form, you can very easily squirt it onto many, many   
   > different machines, even as here those with different hardware, even   
   > the 1000s of your claimed experience, and only have a problem when a   
   > PC was actually faulty, but that doesn't mean that someone installing   
   > by hand step-by-step wouldn't encounter problems where you don't.   
   >   
      
      
      
      
      
   Most of the machine I worked on used an XP_slipstreamed_Sp3 image.   
      
      
   Occasionally I'd get machines that just needed to be updated to SP3 and   
   all else was OK.   
      
      
   Logic would dictate that if the machine worked fine with SP2 and it was   
   upgraded to Sp3 and became problematic...that Sp3 caused the problem. I   
   saw that happen once and I certainly have seen others posting to Usenet   
   that Sp3 caused a problem.   
      
      
   However it's been my experience that Sp3 works fine 99.9% +   
      
      
      
   Anyway, I hope the OP tests his H/W  , I've seen problems like he's   
   experienced on hard drives that have read/write errors.   
      
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