windows 7 sp-1

[Ickie]

I installed windows 7 SP-1 and all seemed fine and I shut my computer off last night.

this morning it would not start no video, so i changed out video cards and it worked for 3 minutes and crashed.
I put the old card back in and it came up with tons of errors and the restore would not work,

it took 4 hours to get it back up again, I had to use the disk to get going and now I am backing up my drive this will take all day, I am not even going to touch this unit until it is complete.

in the restore process it told me windows cannot fix my computer and sent info to MS.

I am running windows 7 ultamite 64.

it was odd that when it rebooted no beep for video was made and no video, I really thought the bad butt video card bit the dust, and my other video card was yesterdays bad butt card and it kinda worked, than I thought maybe my motherboard was bad, but now everything seens ok for now.

I did change out to a new video cable and still it didn't work.

I am keeping my fingers crossed.

[Pronto91]

I have SP1 installed (didn't plan on it but my wife installed it thinking she was doing something else). No problems yet,but I have not rebooted since the install;what would happen if I uninstall SP1?

[aris2747]

I have 2 computers running Windows 7, I installed SP1 on both. One computer, which needed a rebuild, would not boot after the install. The other computer is running just fine, thank you.

aris2747

[Ickie]

I am back to before sp-1 and all is running fine.

[Z-IanMCD]

I have three machines running Win 7 professional 64 bit, upgraded them all to SP1, and all three are running like they should.

apart from a slower boot time after the first reboot (which is normal), everything is running brilliantly.

I hope everything works out for all of you!

[kilo delta]

I have three machines running Win 7 professional 64 bit, upgraded them all to SP1, and all three are running like they should.

apart from a slower boot time after the first reboot (which is normal), everything is running brilliantly.

I hope everything works out for all of you!


Same here ...I've installed SP1 on 6 machines over the weekend without issue.

[Z-IanMCD]

I have SP1 installed (didn't plan on it but my wife installed it thinking she was doing something else). No problems yet,but I have not rebooted since the install;what would happen if I uninstall SP1?

IMHO, if everything is running fine, there is no reason to go back.

The reasons why other people, in casu ickie, have had a bad experience can be varied. (software related, or even hardware)

If your rig is still running as it should, keep the SP1, if only for security reasons.

BTW, I am an IT technician for the federal govt of the country where I live.

[Ickie]

my laptop i upgraded on Tuesday and it is fine, I think sp1 doesn't like nvidia chips, both video cards were high end gtx cards and the drivers were up to date, may i add my asus MB has nvidia chips on it too. I was certainly was having a video issue, total darkness, not even would it post the bios. It took my disk to fix this and 4 hours of my time, and I was swearing the whole time, lol. I musta broke the second commandment 1000 times

[lefty]

Im running a (now ancient) 8800GTX - SP1 on my 64-bit Win7 has caused no problems.

[Ferry_vO]

Had major problems with SP1 myself, turned out to be most likely the Anti virus software (Panda) that messed up the install. Needed a few attempts to roll back and uninstall both SP1 and Panda. After removing both everything was fine. On the second attempt I installed SP1 first and then reinstalled Panda. It's working fine now!

[Z-IanMCD]

Had major problems with SP1 myself, turned out to be most likely the Anti virus software (Panda) that messed up the install. Needed a few attempts to roll back and uninstall both SP1 and Panda. After removing both everything was fine. On the second attempt I installed SP1 first and then reinstalled Panda. It's working fine now!

Ickie, Ferry has a point there! What security are you running on your rigs? Moreover, did you try to boot in safe mode after the mishap??

Lastly, what is the build of your Win7??

[Ickie]

I had no video to boot to, I have always use AVG Pro

[FlyingFinn]

I've had problems after my attempt to install SP1 failed due to unknown reasons.. and my comp hasn't behaved normally since then, might do a system restore.

[FlyingFinn]

System Restore helped. now everything works as it should.. for now. Funny, that Microsofts own updates mess up the comp..