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Old 25th Jan 2005, 16:22
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BFU,

I put SP2 an a friend's machine (as a favour) and it did cause some grief but in general improved security. Had to take it off however as one of the problems I have found insurmountable - at least for the moment.

After SP2 was installed we noticed that some data files had been disappeared and no amount of searching found them; they were well and truly gone, so back up anything you don't want to loose (I am SURE everone does that anyway, don't they...).

Also there was a strange propensity for some packages to suddenly stop, the video output died and the machine hung-up. Not even Ctr-ALt-DEl would get it back.

Some research and advice (thanks eLiam and Evo) lead me to a known conflict between the Nvidia GeForce MX4000 drivers and SP2. Hopefully there will be another update to these which will let me put SP2 back on but I have not yet found it.

Your call!

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