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Benarty

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SP3 should really be avoided on mediacenter computers.

It leads to massive errors, from small to big.

 

Big in my case: computer starts up, DVBViewer starts, no video, stuttering audio.

Channel info displays no stream errors so the DVB card is actual receiving the channel.

 

If you have installed SP3 and you get a slight problem afterwards, remove SP3.

 

SP3 is not a major service pack at all.

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No problems with SP3 here at all with an ATi 3650 and TT S2-3200.

 

Channel info displays no stream errors so the DVB card is actual receiving the channel.

 

To verify stream errors you should use TransEdit. EPG is cached and has no real real-time demands anyway.

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SP3 should really be avoided on mediacenter computers.

It leads to massive errors, from small to big.

 

Big in my case: computer starts up, DVBViewer starts, no video, stuttering audio.

Channel info displays no stream errors so the DVB card is actual receiving the channel.

 

If you have installed SP3 and you get a slight problem afterwards, remove SP3.

 

SP3 is not a major service pack at all.

I've no Problem with SP3 and Video, Audio, Hibernating or others.

At the time it works perfect with 3.9.4 or 3.9.2 :(

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SP3 worked fine for a bit more then 24 hours.

Then , when closing DVBViewer = shutdown , error that XP could not close the audio application.

Next day, poof, no video, jittered audio, rebooted but same problem.

XP had no problem with other tasks . Removed SP3 and poof, back to normal.

 

I told: if you get a slight error after installing SP3, just remove it.

 

 

And: SP3 is not a major service pack,

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SP3 worked fine for a bit more then 24 hours.

Then , when closing DVBViewer = shutdown , error that XP could not close the audio application.

Next day, poof, no video, jittered audio, rebooted but same problem.

XP had no problem with other tasks . Removed SP3 and poof, back to normal.

 

I told: if you get a slight error after installing SP3, just remove it.

And: SP3 is not a major service pack,

SP3 is only a accumulation of all former patches available for xp since SP2

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If you have installed SP3 and you get a slight problem afterwards, remove SP3.

 

SP3 is only a accumulation of all former patches available for xp since SP2

For 98% indeed

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Quote:

 

If you have installed SP3 and you get a slight problem afterwards, remove SP3.

For 98% indeed

 

On my HTPC not connected to the Net and thus, no antivirus or so: no problem.

 

Netherverless, I had serious issue after installing SP3 on my Office PC: could not access to Windows, it reboot in permanent loops. Same when trying to upgradre throught Windows update. I suspect at least one specific update to conflict with certains tasks.

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On my HTPC not connected to the Net and thus, no antivirus or so: no problem.

 

Netherverless, I had serious issue after installing SP3 on my Office PC: could not access to Windows, it reboot in permanent loops. Same when trying to upgradre throught Windows update. I suspect at least one specific update to conflict with certains tasks.

Hibernate not work. When my computer wakeup from hibernate state, network adapter AS2 does'n have any problems, but DVBViewer say HW is not available and scan devices too (XP SP3 + 4.4.3.9999Skynet Driver+DVBViewer 3.9.4.0). After I restart PC or use BDA drivers all works OK.

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My experience in installing SP3 on XP Pro:

• in 4 PC it work without any problem,

• in 1 PC (a HP DX2300 just after the pre-installation was done) can't connect correctly to the LAN... even after netsh Winsock reset or SP3 uninstall -> I had to totally Recover it... ;)

 

:shifty:

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on the pc that i'm using: SP3 installed and poof, emu 1212 drivers gone, chipset drivers back to generic ones.

But after installing the chipset drivers and the emu driver then it's working again.

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I experienced several problems after installing SP3, with DVBViewer and other applications. Worked fine for about a week, then strange things started to happen. Finally I was not able to start the system at all. Restarted it in Safe Mode and removed SP3, after that, no problems.

 

So my advice is, if your system starts to behave strange after installing SP3, uninstall it.

 

Regards

DolKbg

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