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Thinking of gettiing Vista SP2? HOLD YOUR HORSES!

I installed SP2 last night and, like Caz, I lost all sound. The sound card shows up and says it's working. I didn't have time to mess with it last night. This morning I discovered that sound is coming out of a headset that is plugged into the soundcard. Perhaps it is behaving the way it should, and the headset is cutting off the speakers which is the way I'd expect it to work but it never did before. I always had sound out both the speakers and the headset. I'll unplug it when I get home and find out.

Jim
 
FLighT01 said:
I gave in and downloaded SP2 for my Vista64 Ultimate . No changes in FSX perf that I can discern, but this is a dedicated FSX box with FSX on it's own drive, I don't do multitasking, or go on the net for anything but patches, (I use my old box for that stuff), and the Services I had turned off stayed off with no new ones added.

But, my O&O defrag 64 v8.6 got a problem and would hang at 63% on the same file when trying to do a Complete by Name defrag (but not on a Space defrag?). I left it on overnite and still stuck there. Anywho, I uninstalled O&O and deleted it's left over folder and registry key. Running Vista's defragger from command prompt presently and all is well, so far.
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May want to check your harddrive out. I had one that died on me, and that was one of the first signs of it failing - getting stuck and never finishing...
 
Sheeesh, Microsoft strikes again. I had posted above about losing all sound after I installed Service Pack 2. That wasn't the worst of it.

Tonight I went to run FSX and as soon as I clicked on a plane, it crashed. I re-booted and ran it again, this time the menu screen was blank and it froze there.

Several more re-boots and several more attempts and every time it crashed, sometimes with the "fatal error" message, sometimes not. Just as I was about to restore to before the SP2 install, I decided to run DXDIAG and found that the SP2 install had installed a real old video driver (169.25).

I went to the Dell Support site and downloaded their latest nVidia driver and installed it and **knock on wood**, FSX ran fine. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed that that was the problem.

If you have issues after installing SP2, take a look at your drivers. Why in the world Microsoft would install older drivers into a new Service Pack is beyond me.

Jim
 
Jim, there arnt any video drivers in SP2 but Windows Update does list drivers sometimes as an optional update.
My Vista install is still running the 182.08 drivers I installed ages ago but WU is listing nVidea display and network drivers for me, I just ignore them.

My advise on useing WU is to turn off automatic updates and check for them yourself on a regular basis.
When it says that updates are available dont just hit the button to install updates, always click to check available updates first.

I woudnt be suprised if thats what happened to your sound an WU installed updated sound drivers without you knowing.
 
To update to sp2, since I was not offered sp2 in the first 2 days, I was under the impression I needed to load all the optional upgrades MS had offered but had not been installed. So I installed those as well as IE8. All seems well except that everytime I start IE8 my Norton Internet security indicates that the phishing has been turned off which must then be activated. Also on occasion, perhaps once every 3 days or so, the Norton Framework is shutdown, thus no protection. When that occurs I immediately restart Vista to re-establish protection.

Don't know what program install may have caused this or if somehow the pc was compromised by malware during the process of updating to sp2.
 
Sorry to hear you guys having so much trouble. I installed SP2 but I stop using Vista for any game playing due to it being a hog for resources. I know some in here get 50FPS but on my slow a$$ system I couldn't. I have FSX on XP Pro and no problem. It is on a separate HD and the only program I have on it is a defragger. I have been using Windows 7 as my main OS. It too is on a separate HD with no issues. I need to install FSX back on it. Windows last week sent the beta testers a new updated copy that will carry us to 07/10/2010. Of course you had to do a clean install. Vista kinda reminds me of the OS,ME if you guys can remember. It's like every other release of a new OS is a problem child for MS. What really blows my mind is the different effects it has on computers....Mike
 
This is directly from Microsoft's Support site:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948481

"Windows Vista service packs update several system files and device drivers. When Windows Vista service packs are installed, some older drivers are reinstalled. If these older drivers do not reinstall correctly, sound problems can occur"

Jim
 
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