Over the past weekend I noticed Windows XP Service Pack 2 had been installed.
For those of you who didn't know it, sp2 is what some might consider to be a sneaky update and it installs without your knowledge if you haven't opted to block it, though I've heard around the web that Microsoft can circumvent this and force-install it on most systems.
Having stated what OS version I'm running on, this entry starts when I needed to burn some files onto a DVD-R disc for archiving. Up until that point, I had burned many CDs as well as DVDs successfully with my burner (Which is a LG GSA-4163B Dual Layer enabled Drive). This DVD was to be mostly pictures and whatnot courtesy of the My Documents Folder, just in case my computer decides it wants to explode one day without my consent or warning. Needless to say, this update changes some aspects of the system which I'm sure there's little if any warning.
Needless to say, 4 perfectly good DVD-R blanks went to waste with only about 300k worth of information written to them. I wish there was a way to make those disks burnable again as it just seems like a waste. Seeing as to how I was unsure why my DVD+/-R-RW drive failed repeatedly in what seemed to be a mundane task I ran some diagnostics on my machine which reported the machine was running fine. One thing that did struck me as a potential factor was that SP2 had been installed and I realized I hadn't burned a single DVD after the update. I googled some to find answers. I stumbled upon this.
Indeed what that particular post stated was true. SP2 had as a matter of fact changed my Primary and Secondary IDE channels from DMA to PIO. I did as the post said and deleted both channels from the System Manager.
Two reboots later and I was burning my DVD without any problems.
Things seem to be back to "normal", though I wonder how many more problems I am to stumble upon now that SP2 is here to stay.
Got any SP2 horror stories?
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