Windows Vista SP1 Friendly Advice

[Guest John Adams]

I was one of the people who got SP1 for Vista x64 through Windows Update the

other day. The install went fine and my computer came back afterwards

without any trouble. However, in the days that followed, I noticed that one

of my Excel files was corrupted and I had to restore it from backup. I also

noticed that I had a USB hardware error in Device Manager and once while

installed Call of Duty 4, I had a BSOD. Also, I noticed that sometimes my

system would take a longer-than-usual time to read files from my second and

third hard drives.

 

I checked into it and came to the conclusion that my INF drivers were not

properly reinstalled during the SP1 changes. I have an intel P35 chipset.

I got the inf auto-installer, ran it with the command-line switch "-overall"

in order to force it to redo the drivers, and it seems like everything is

back to normal.

 

I just hope maybe this helps someone else out there who has these problems

too.

 

- John

[Guest Seamus]

RE: Windows Vista SP1 Friendly Advice

 

I forgot to mention two other problems:

 

1.) My network connection kept going in and out.

 

2.) Windows suddenly reported that my graphics settings should be lowered in

the Performance control panel app. (Which is ridiculous since all I was

doing was browsing the internet with an nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512, not even

playing any games).

 

So far, after forcefully reinstalling the Chipset drivers, the system has

been running better than ever. This makes me think that intel chipset

drivers are one of the "small number of device drivers" that they are working

on correcting before the greater SP1 push. It's no wonder they're waiting on

this. Intel chipsets are practically ubiquitous unless you have an nVidia

board or an AMD system.

 

Now that I've worked this out, my SP1 system is faster, more stable (during

Call of Duty 4 especially), boots/resumes faster, etc... than Vista RTM was.

It's great when it works, but it sucks when it doesn't. Be careful out there.

 

"John Adams" wrote:

> I was one of the people who got SP1 for Vista x64 through Windows Update the

> other day. The install went fine and my computer came back afterwards

> without any trouble. However, in the days that followed, I noticed that one

> of my Excel files was corrupted and I had to restore it from backup. I also

> noticed that I had a USB hardware error in Device Manager and once while

> installed Call of Duty 4, I had a BSOD. Also, I noticed that sometimes my

> system would take a longer-than-usual time to read files from my second and

> third hard drives.

>

> I checked into it and came to the conclusion that my INF drivers were not

> properly reinstalled during the SP1 changes. I have an intel P35 chipset.

> I got the inf auto-installer, ran it with the command-line switch "-overall"

> in order to force it to redo the drivers, and it seems like everything is

> back to normal.

>

> I just hope maybe this helps someone else out there who has these problems

> too.

>

> - John

>

[Guest Lance Le Claire]

Re: Windows Vista SP1 Friendly Advice

 

Hi Seamus,

 

I have had DP35DP for three months. I have had 6 bios updates so far! Never

seen anything like that. I say great work Intel!!

--

Lance Frca {497083/1008563} MVP Shell/User

http://www.zardoc.com

XP-Vista Trucs et Astuces et autres

 

"Seamus" <Seamus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>I forgot to mention two other problems:

>

> 1.) My network connection kept going in and out.

>

> 2.) Windows suddenly reported that my graphics settings should be lowered

> in

> the Performance control panel app. (Which is ridiculous since all I was

> doing was browsing the internet with an nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512, not

> even

> playing any games).

>

> So far, after forcefully reinstalling the Chipset drivers, the system has

> been running better than ever. This makes me think that intel chipset

> drivers are one of the "small number of device drivers" that they are

> working

> on correcting before the greater SP1 push. It's no wonder they're waiting

> on

> this. Intel chipsets are practically ubiquitous unless you have an nVidia

> board or an AMD system.

>

> Now that I've worked this out, my SP1 system is faster, more stable

> (during

> Call of Duty 4 especially), boots/resumes faster, etc... than Vista RTM

> was.

> It's great when it works, but it sucks when it doesn't. Be careful out

> there.

>

> "John Adams" wrote:

>

>> I was one of the people who got SP1 for Vista x64 through Windows Update

>> the

>> other day. The install went fine and my computer came back afterwards

>> without any trouble. However, in the days that followed, I noticed that

>> one

>> of my Excel files was corrupted and I had to restore it from backup. I

>> also

>> noticed that I had a USB hardware error in Device Manager and once while

>> installed Call of Duty 4, I had a BSOD. Also, I noticed that sometimes

>> my

>> system would take a longer-than-usual time to read files from my second

>> and

>> third hard drives.

>>

>> I checked into it and came to the conclusion that my INF drivers were not

>> properly reinstalled during the SP1 changes. I have an intel P35

>> chipset.

>> I got the inf auto-installer, ran it with the command-line switch

>> "-overall"

>> in order to force it to redo the drivers, and it seems like everything is

>> back to normal.

>>

>> I just hope maybe this helps someone else out there who has these

>> problems

>> too.

>>

>> - John

>>

[Guest Chris Cowles]

Re: Windows Vista SP1 Friendly Advice

 

"John Adams" <seamus@horadrim.net> wrote in message

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> I checked into it and came to the conclusion that my INF drivers

> were not properly reinstalled during the SP1 changes. I have an

> intel P35 chipset. I got the inf auto-installer, ran it with the

> command-line switch "-overall" in order to force it to redo the

> drivers, and it seems like everything is back to normal.

 

Can you elaborate a bit on the "inf auto-installer"? Thanks.

[Guest John Adams]

Re: Windows Vista SP1 Friendly Advice

 

Sure. I went to http://www.intel.com , downloaded the latest chipset drivers, then

opened a command prompt where I had saved the installer and ran the

installer like this: "infinst_autol.exe -OVERALL". Your installation file

may have a different name, but the command line switch "-overall" is what's

important.

 

- John

 

 

"Chris Cowles" <spam_magnet@remove-me-bellsouth.net> wrote in message

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> "John Adams" <seamus@horadrim.net> wrote in message

> news:ECC4AAF8-4353-445E-BABE-9DC581CBD8F4@microsoft.com...

>

>> I checked into it and came to the conclusion that my INF drivers were not

>> properly reinstalled during the SP1 changes. I have an intel P35

>> chipset. I got the inf auto-installer, ran it with the command-line

>> switch "-overall" in order to force it to redo the drivers, and it seems

>> like everything is back to normal.

>

> Can you elaborate a bit on the "inf auto-installer"? Thanks.

>