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« Reply #15 on: May 09, 2008, 05:29:53 PM »
Quote from: Roco on May 09, 2008, 04:41:22 PM
No probs. with Sp3, just built a slipstreamed Xp/Sp3 disk, you don't need Sp1a or Sp2
working great , but still takes some real estate though ,  Evil or Very Mad but I guess not as much as Vista , guess I will skip that one till 7 comes out ,

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« Reply #16 on: May 09, 2008, 07:37:59 PM »
Quote from: .s1 on May 07, 2008, 06:51:00 PM

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Now dxdiag doesnt recognize all my ram.. 


It won't because the 32bit OS can't use more than 3 GIGS.  M$ patched Vista to display the correct amount of installed RAM (If your BIOS supports it), but the OS can only access up to 3 gigs.
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« Reply #17 on: May 09, 2008, 07:42:31 PM »
Quote from: ghostmaster on May 09, 2008, 07:37:59 PM
It won't because the 32bit OS can't use more than 3 GIGS.  M$ patched Vista to display the correct amount of installed RAM (If your BIOS supports it), but the OS can only access up to 3 gigs.
So are you saying that it does no good to have over 3 gigs of ram then?  undecided
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« Reply #18 on: May 09, 2008, 10:18:39 PM »

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« Reply #19 on: May 09, 2008, 11:40:23 PM »
wEl< i instoled sb3 end all is wall. oil i neat do fund ice e kayburt tryfar dat words.
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« Reply #20 on: May 10, 2008, 10:12:21 AM »
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« Reply #21 on: May 10, 2008, 10:35:15 PM »
I read most of the Micro#$%&*$  Kb articles about SP3, when
I read the one that basically said that it installed all the updates
from the past, even the ones I opted not to install, that was
enough for me.  I WILL NOT BE INSTALLING IT ON MY JUNK.

IMHO it is only some more forcefeed from MS to try getting you
to buy Vista when you get tired of the SP3 junk.
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« Reply #22 on: May 12, 2008, 01:29:33 PM »
Had a odd problem with Sp-3 , I was running Xp pro (legit )  I did a ASR backup before running Sp3 , reinstalled XP pro+Sp3 from a slipstreamed disk , all went well,
and I had Sp3 installed , then I ran my backup , all is working fine , but System properties tells me I am back on SP2  Shocked, although hard drive used space tells me I have Sp3 on , any one else seen that ? or have any sugestions how to check I have Sp-3 installed ?
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« Reply #23 on: May 12, 2008, 03:41:00 PM »
Quote from: tommie gorman on May 09, 2008, 07:42:31 PM
So are you saying that it does no good to have over 3 gigs of ram then?  undecided

Yep, unless you have a 64bit OS....
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