i have been dragging my feet on upgrading my home pc with sp2 for quite a while. with my recent wireless router purchase, it seemed like a good time as there are allegedly several enhancements with sp2 related to wireless networking. well, i backed up some critical data, said a prayer and gave it a go. as is the case many times, my pc failed to boot up properly after the "upgrade". i tried several options but for the time being have decided to opt for the "repair" option and install a copy of xp over the top of the exisiting OS. even this presented a whole host of challenges, which i won't go into detail about here, but suffice it to say if i didn't have my notebook pc with me, and the abilty to browse several tech forums, i'd be hosed. i have plenty of time as the install is estimating 39 minutes but we know how that goes. i believe the problem is that i have a pc that was manufactured in may of 2000, and i don't have a new enough BIOS. i looked into upgrading the BIOS once and some outfit wanted to charge me like $60. i don't think so. anyway, the jury is still out...i hope to have a normal looking desktop when i finally get this sucker up and running. sp 2 may have to wait.
more later :-(
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