TSGL: MS SP1 for Vista--Anyone Else Having Problems??

Thu Mar 20 21:32:02 EDT 2008

Lee,

Some info on the "GS" variant here: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G#WRT54GS.

It has "SpeedBooster" technology. Claims up to 30% faster performance 
depending??? As you said, essentially the same as the G model.

Geez, skiing! We've had so little snow this year in eastern PA that I 
haven't even taken the mower off the tractor yet. West and north of us 
they're up to their keesters (backsides, for our far southern listeners) 
in the stuff.

H Davis

Lee Bunyard wrote:
> Well, if I've saved someone some grief, then that's good at least.  It 
> sure frustrated me, not to mention that I wasted the better part of half 
> a day screwing around with it.  This was not my day for dealing with 
> computers.  After I undid the mess created by the SP1 installation, my 
> wife asked me to setup and install a new HP deskjet printer she just 
> bought and wanted to set it up as a 2nd printer for the desktop pc.  
> Naturally the USB cable for the printer was not quite long enough to 
> reach to the back USB port on the CPU, and to mess things up further, 
> when I pulled the CPU out to make the connection, I disconnected several 
> other cable connections.  Believe me, there's nothing I enjoy more than 
> lying on my back in the dark under the computer desk trying to reconnect 
> cables--LMAO.  But I finally got it all straightened out and working 
> fine.  I didn't get a chance to contact Cisco Corp re the LinkSys router 
> problem and probably won't until Friday--I'm going skiing tomorrow while 
> we still have halfway decent snow.   But I will let you know if I get a 
> solution to the problem.  My LinkSys is a WRT54GS.  I'm not sure what 
> the difference is with the "S" product but I suspect it's pretty much 
> the same router you have.  Thanks for the sympathies.  LOL
> Lee in the Mountains of Northern California
>
> H Davis wrote:
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>> My sympathies Lee, but you've probably saved the rest of us a lot of 
>> grief. Please update us if you get the LinkSys router problem worked 
>> out. I have a WRT54G which I assume is what you have, so I'm very 
>> interested in that solution.
>>
>> H Davis
>>
>> Lee Bunyard wrote:
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>>> I disagree.  The LinkSys router is only a year old, worked fine with my 
>>> old desktop running XP and worked fine with the new desktop running 
>>> Vista.  Just didn't work after installing Vista SP1.  IMHO, MS should 
>>> have identified the problem during the beta testing of SP1 and had 
>>> either a solution during the installation or at least had a better 
>>> explanation of the cause of the problem and what to do about it than the 
>>> gobblygook error message that appeared on the screen.  FWIW, Information 
>>> Week magazine is already reporting tons of people are bombarding them 
>>> and MS blogs with problems with the SP1 release.  MS news releases now 
>>> warn that SP1 is "not perfect".  So why did they release it from beta if 
>>> they knew that??  Give me a break.
>>> Lee in the Mountains of Northern California
>>>
>>> ColinS wrote:
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>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> The issue here is not really the fault of MS, rather that of the driver and
>>>> device manufacturers. 
>>>>
>>>> Consider how long Vista has been out, the changes made to the driver model
>>>> and other bits (for security reasons & in response to user demands) and how
>>>> long prior to the Vista release that the specifications were made available
>>>> to third party manufacturers, yet to this day many manufacturers do not have
>>>> compatible or stable drivers available.
>>>>
>>>> It obviously easy to point the finger at MS but we should not be so hasty.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
>>>> Behalf Of Lee Bunyard
>>>> Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2008 6:23 a.m.
>>>> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
>>>> Subject: TSGL: MS SP1 for Vista--Anyone Else Having Problems??
>>>>
>>>> Service Pak 1 for Vista came out of Beta Tuesday and came up on my 
>>>> desktop pc as a Windows Update item this a.m., so I just finished 
>>>> downloading it--takes over an hour to download and install.  When it 
>>>> finished and re-booted, I discovered that
>>>> 1) my ZoneAlarm Free firewall no longer works because of 
>>>> "incompatibility problems".  I had read that the Zone Alarm Internet 
>>>> Security Suite would not work with SP1 but had not heard that even the 
>>>> standalone basic Zone Alarm firewall doesn't work either. 
>>>>
>>>> 2) I had no Internet connection.  Apparently there is a driver 
>>>> incompatibility with the LinkSys wireless router I use for the wireless 
>>>> connection to my laptop (which I am using of course to send this 
>>>> email).  With the usual gobblygook error message from MS, I checked to 
>>>> make sure the network boxes are properly checked per the MS instruction 
>>>> and they are.  Still doesn't work.  FWIW--my desktop running Vista is 
>>>> less than six months old, and the LinkSys router is about a year old.
>>>>
>>>> So now I am uninstalling the SP1 Pak.  It will take over an hour to do 
>>>> that and I can only hope that the pc boots up properly after doing so.  
>>>> Wish me luck.  I'll try System Restore I suppose if it doesn't.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know what the impact will be of NOT installing Vista SP1??  
>>>> I haven't read anything about that. 
>>>>
>>>> No wonder so many people are so disgusted with MS.  Wouldn't you think 
>>>> that with the large number of LinkSys wireless routers out there that MS 
>>>> would have identified a potential problem in SP1 during all the beta 
>>>> testing that was done and offer a better solution??  But then again, I 
>>>> remember the mess that many people had with the XP SP2 update a few 
>>>> years back. 
>>>>
>>>> OK, I got this off my chest, back to checking on the uninstall. 
>>>> Call me "Totally Disgusted Lee in the Mountains of Northern California"
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