SP3 on a Dell B110

[bizzybody]

I've just done a clean install of SP3 slipstreamed XP Pro on a Dell B110. That has an Intel 865 chipset. I have a 128 meg PCI nVidia GeForce 5200 FX card installed.

After installing XP and the latest chipset (Intel says 6.3.0.1007 is for 800 series), video (forceware 169.21) and modem drivers, then using Autopatcher to install all the latest updates, including IE7 and Media Player 11, the $%$$^$# thing refuses to shut down unless I launch Task Manager and use its shutdown command. I also installed the intel video drivers, then disabled it in Device Manager.

There is no way to disable the onboard video in BIOS! It only allocates part of the main memory when there's a monitor connected.

The only other software installed is Office 2003 (just Word and Excel), Avast 4 with only the basic protection enabled (the others were blocking access to sites like Yahoo and Microsoft), ICQ 6 and Spybot Search and Destroy, and the drivers for an HP Photosmart 3110.

I had the Alternative input thing installed for Office 2003 (was going to try speech recognition) but the .exe for that was hanging at shutdown. Removing that didn't cure anything. I may just go back to Office 2002/XP.

The other problem is that the video resolution will not return to 1440x900 after exiting a fullscreen program that uses a lower resolution. (19 inch widescreen LCD, Envision brand, they have no .inf for it.)

Prior to this clean install, it did not have either of these problems. The drivers are the same versions I used with XP SP2. With SP2 it would not allow both video controllers to be enabled at the same time. (If there are bugs with these drivers and SP3, Intel, nVidia etc have not released any updates to correct them.)

I did the clean install because it had some other problems going back to a quite nasty stealth trojan/virus that deleted AVG 7 and Spybot and blocked installation of any other scan/remove software I tried. I was able to clean it by connecting the drive to another PC. SP3 could not complete installation, so "nuke and pave" was the only way to go. But even with all the problems it had, it NEVER had the problems it has now.