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#1 Post by **jdhurst** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:08 am

I have a spare drive for my T41 (2373-1HU). It is the original 30Gb drive that came with the machine. Twice now I have done the following:

With SP2 RC1 and now with SP2 RC2,
1. Fdisk the drive, run the T41 Recovery CD's and build the preload image.
2. Install SP2 RC1 (one test) or Install SP2 RC2 directly (second test).

Each time:
1. Windows Update (the new Version 5) is deathly slow or does not work at all. Fails half the time and works slowly half the time. It has never worked "properly" like Version 4 of Windows Update in SP1.

2. With either Release Candidate, I cannot access files on the IBM support site. So, I go to the Support site, pick out the MIGR page I want, and click on the file link. This brings up an agreement window (relatively new). I click on "Agree", I get a beep and nothing happens. The download does not begin. Works just fine in Service Pack 1 (or Windows 2000, for that matter).

Is anyone running SP2 RC2? And if so, is the IBM support page download method working for you? And if so, did you make any changes to settings in Internet Explorer?

So far for me, Service Pack 2 is still very much a work in progress and production appears to be a long way off. ... JDHurst

mtj · #2 Post by **mtj** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:18 am

That beep is likely the "this web page wants to do something active; is that OK with you?" signal. Note the discreet yellow banner at the top of your IE browser. Click for options as it suggests, enable the IBM site as a trusted one, and things should be OK. The same is true for Windows Update. You need to let the firewall know that Update is a friend.

This was all in the instructions I read when installing SP2 RC2 and it has worked quite well for me in every way.

Good luck!

Leeper · #3 Post by **Leeper** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:14 am

You are seeing a lot of the new features that come with SP2 (and were only really visable and working in RC2)

The beep you are hearing is IE saying that it does not have aproval to download the file. It should be showing a status window just under the address bar saying it can not download the file. I have found that you need to allow more than just ibm.com but it is fairly easy to allow sites as needed.

MTJ is correct on the win update stuff also - you must allow windows firewall to get update to work.

All of this is in the release notes for RC2, if your machine is part of a corporate domain it is possible that settings are being pushed to you via GPO that you will not be able to change. The ADM files for SP2 were released a couple days ago (in RC2 flavor).

#4 Post by **jdhurst** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:22 am

Thanks. I am not on a domain. The other (SP2) hard disk is at home, so I will try these things out this evening. I use Symantec Client Security 1.1, so I disabled the Windows SP2 firewall. I will check this again as well. Thanks again. ... JDHurst

Leeper · #5 Post by **Leeper** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:27 am

It has been strongly suggested on the MSFT beta boards that all other forms of firewalls be disabled on any machien running SP2.

The MSFT new firewall is really very good and will probably put the other companies out of that market.

nikemen · #6 Post by **nikemen** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:38 am

where'd ya read that. I find stikingly differant info on the MSFT MSDN board and neowin.net

Saying, NAV, norton, panda, etc. don't have much to worry about.

Leeper · #7 Post by **Leeper** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:42 am

Info comes from both the betaplace messages boards and direct from MSFT PSS.

#8 Post by **jdhurst** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 5:56 pm

At this point (next day, nothing changed), the IBM PC Support site does not work at all with SP2. Clicking a file no longer brings up the Agree dialog. Nothing happens at all. The Reverse colour video headers are not there. You cannot change from Hot Tips to Download Drivers - nothing happens. I will try enabling the firewall to see what happens. If (as I suspect) Microsoft is enforcing their firewall to the exclusion of others, very few people will update to SP2. So far, as an avid and ardent supporter of XP Pro SP1 and ThinkPads, my journey into SP2 is a bad joke. ... JDHurst

Leeper · #9 Post by **Leeper** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:02 pm

I am able to pull files down from the support site just fine under SP2. You have to go through the process twice (once to get the prompt to approve the download and the second time to acutally get the file).

You might want to reset all your IE security stuff back to defult and see what that gets you.

#10 Post by **JaneL** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:47 pm

Why is this in the T Series forum and not the Windows forum?

#11 Post by **jdhurst** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:23 pm

Because I own a T, and because problems might be specific to that. SP2 apparently corrupted the install, so I have had to start all over again. Slows things down. ... JDHurst

Guest · #12 Post by **Guest** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:13 pm

Um I was wondering jdhurst how much of your 30Gb hard drive was available to you when you first got it. I am thinking about getting a T41 with that size HD.

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