Vista SP1 x64 is now out on automatic updates!

acruxksa · Last edited by acruxksa on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:45:06; edited 2 times in total

My laptop is currently downloading Vista SP1 x64. It came through on automatic updates this morning. Now to see if it borks the system....................Hopefully not, I've finally got everything setup the way I like it. I've read that it can render some systems unbootable Sad

I guess I'll know soon enough.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:22:14 Post Subject:

Is 32-bit out already? Or coming soon?

How about SP3 on XP?

If we don't see you for a while, I guess we know how well it went... Grin

acruxksa · Posted: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:31:27 Post Subject:

I'm not sure, I thought vista sp1 wasn't supposed to be released until March, so I was a bit surprised to find it downloading this morning. it says the update is between 120Mb and 700Mb depending on the system.

I have updates disabled on my XP systems because there are certain programs I don't want updated (WMP for example). I would think if MS released the 64bit sp1 update for Vista, the 32bit version is either already out or not far behind.

acruxksa · Posted: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:48:59 Post Subject:

It's installed and everything appears to be running normally.
I did get a BSOD and core dump about 10seconds after installation began, but after rebooting I restarted the install and everything seemed to proceed normally. It took about 30minutes to complete. Not sure what the benefits will be though.

About Windows (run winver) now shows:
Version 6.0 (Build 6001:Service Pack 1)

edvallie · Posted: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:20:44 Post Subject:

And surprise! Vista SP1 was already recalled by microsoft!

**Modulok** · Posted: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:23:09 Post Subject:

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:36:24 Post Subject:

acruxksa · Posted: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:42:03 Post Subject:

It's not recalled, update KB937287 was. It was an update microsoft released in preparation for Vista SP1, but apparently it caused problems for some people. Although not me I guess because my update log shows it installed successfully on my system. The news here is that Vista SP1 wasn't supposed to be publicly available until mid March and yet it seems that it's available via windows update now. I wonder why and how come no one else seems to know about it.

Here's a screen shot of my update log and Windows Info box (a bit big, but I didn't want to shrink it so much it became unreadable)

PS. Some sharp eyed viewers may notice FAH running in the taskbar Wink

This new t9300 (2.5Ghz core2duo w/ 6mb of cache) seems to perform pretty well for a laptop. Grin

acruxksa · Posted: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:58:29 Post Subject:

Looks like it's official now: at least for Vista x64

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/microsoft-lets-loose-vista-sp1-for-x64-based-systems/

edvallie · Posted: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:01:12 Post Subject:

http://slashdot.org/articles/08/02/21/1526225.shtml

However long it lasted for...