This is how SP1 went. Good. Let's have your feedback.

Good discussion, I am going to call HP and get their take on it. I'll keep you all posted.

Hi, spoke to HP US last night and after much troubleshooting the advice they gave me was to do a system restore. to get to this utility I type System Restore in the Start Search textbox on the Start Menu, started the utility (which took quite a few moments to start) and restores back to sometime previous to the SP. It took a while and after a few beers and munchies and watching the message telling me it was restoring I went to bed and left it. this morning my login screen was the correct resolution and I logged in and got my virtual machines running. Hurrah all round.

I also got an email from HP UK after I logged a support call advising me to upgrade the bios before installing the SP. I am now feverishly backing up everything I should have previously backed up, but, now I'm, smiling

Interesting. What HP computer do you have? Which BIOS did they say needed upgrading to which version?

I have a Pavilion 9600 dual core 64 bit with 4 Gbyte memory, its a good machine really. They never mentioned bios version, just told me to update and gave me a link to the file. I'm holding off until I feel I have the time to give this service pack.

John

I have an HP Pavilion dv9700t Notebook PC. I would suspect that the issues and BIOS are similar. Keep me posted. I think I'll contact HP and see what they have to say about my machine and upgrading to SP1. Thanks for your data! I'd appreciate it if you would post the results of your next try here. Bill

Sure thing bill, and it would be good to hear what HP say to you also.

It's the same old story though (and Microsoft and HP tell you to back up before doing anything like this) but I've learnt another huge lesson to always back up at the end of a days work - I tell customers to do this but didn't follow my own advice - nearly lost a couple of weeks programming effort because I was out of the office and didn't sync up the code.

John

Would SP1 problems and an old BIOS be related? I had the problem, on my ASUS laptop, where SP1 would freeze whenever I used battery power. I thought this was to do with the battery management software but uninstalling it didn't help. I then uninstalled SP1 and left it for a few months. I then reinstalled SP1 last month or so and had the same problems. I decided to update my BIOS and as yet, the problem seems to not happen anymore.
I've been told that the BIOS does not affect the software side of things, i.e Vista, but I think that the hardware glitches may have been fixed with the update? Any comments would be nice.

Your right, It most likely was a hardware issue.
Just my 2 cents

Pesonally, i think that SP1 is one of the worst releases by MS, that, and IE8.
My reasoning:
On my laptop (Presario F504ea) my RAM usage went up, and my wireless became less and less reliable. I trashed it and everything was good and just how i liked it.

I have just put it on a toshiba laptop, and now the audio device is not recognized at all, yet it was before the SP update. There is no question marks in the device manager either.

Any help on a resolution to this problem will be greatly appreciated [that is without a system restore]

Thanks in advance

Nothing but a pain in the rear end...

Have lost use of WMP 11... does not function at all... and have lost the Windows side bar as well.

Have tried to uninstall the Update but that failed... so I am in limbo at the moment whilst I consider the next step.

In hindsight I would never have accepted the Service Pack as I have been on Vista Home Premium for over 7 months with absolutely no issues whatsoever and I am a heavy user of the computer.

Ever since upgrade I am fuming ;-(