tomzi Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 I'd like to ask for insights from the knowledgeable members of this forum on following matter before I resort to a full reinstall of my XP.I had an nlite'd XP SP2 (firewall removed, etc), network working perfectly in and out, and one day I decided to install SP3 over it. It completed fine, but after a few days I noticed that the pc stopped responding to incoming ping requests and remote desktop connections. I uninstalled the 3rd party firewall I had, suspecting a misconfiguration or bug causing this, but it didn't help. I'm still having unhindered outgoing traffic, but the pc is not responding to any incoming connections. It's as if windows firewall was still "protecting" my machine.Because I removed the firewall service, I can't even try starting or configuring the firewall, and therefore I don't really know if its presence is the cause or not.I think the simplest solution will be to reinstall XP, this time with a slipstreamed SP3. Before I do this, I'd still like to know whether someone could give me some clues how to find out what the matter really is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exBBoi Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 the best thing You should do is:1. Rip original WinXPCD2. Slipstream SP3 to it + integrate all new updates3. Slam it with nLite like you did it with SP2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomzi Posted June 11, 2008 Author Share Posted June 11, 2008 Thank you for your reply, but with all respect, I think I'd mentioned that reinstalling would be the easiest option. I was just trying to satisfy my curiosity as to how to solve above problem. In fact, I've already slipstreamed and installed SP3 a couple of times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuhi Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Installing SP over lite installation is not supported. Think about what you're doing. Applying SP, which is almost whole full OS, over the trimmed OS. Of course it will return some stuff and possibly break something.Slipstream, configure, reinstall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrofLuigi Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Applying SP, which is almost whole full OS, over the trimmed OS. Of course it will return some stuff and possibly break something.I tried it in a VM and it broke a lot of stuff. The least problem was that the 'lited away' components returned. GL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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