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Originally Posted by billyo
dont really understand what you're suggesting, new laptop ?, harddrive? my laptop is fairly new and i just replaced the hardrive with 250gb after i got the blue screen, i am waitintg for the 4.0 so i can upgrade..i've read some of the threads about sp3 and i think it works with vista w/o any problems, my laptops has xp..and also searched the threads and i read a reply from adm. that hoster will work with sp2..
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After the blue screen did you reload XP and all the updates? Then nothing should stop SP3 from installing just fine now. The chances of blue screening with SP3 are very slim.
I know you upgraded your hard drive but that was not because of SP3 was it? I have never heard of any hard drive being destroyed by software.
Was this laptop originally XP and did you reload it from the mfg system restore disk? If so you need to read the following Microsoft Knowledgebase article and follow its instructions before you instal SP3. Article is located:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888372/en-us
Hope this will help. Most of we beta testers had some problems with 4.0 before upgrading to SP3 and IE7, so I would seriously consider it a must for XP.