Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 120 day evaluation

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I obtained a disk set called: Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 120 day evaluation.

Should I even bother ?

Anyone tried this copy ?

Apparently there's 2 disks in the pack.

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Not good news !

I tried it and first, I enabled apic, plug and play off in the bios, and virus protection on.

I got a un-called-for restart when it was detecting my hardware, then I thought maybe i didnt see the warning, so on I went then right after setting the time I got

STOP : 0X0000008E (0XC000005,0X80573886,0XF7A3EB9C,0X00000000)

BEGINING PYSICAL MEMORY DUMP..........etc.

Great !

So off to the bios I go, Plug and play on, apic still on virus protection off.

Again, boot from cd, format partition, setup.

I'm off and running, install complete !!! Everything working great, De-dcom, check, windows messy disable, check, upnp disable, check, Via 4in1 508a done, Ethernet driver, done, firewall on updates off, lets register, done.

I go to updates and download 41 criticals, done, installing updates, done, reboot.

Back to update and get some optionals, debugging tools and netframwork 2.0, downloading......Blink!!, restart.now wtf ?

Now this is where XP ALLWAYS goes downhill, the scandisk finds errors, uuurrrggghh!.

MS tells me in a pop-up that it is sending a report about a device driver or something to MS for the analyzer team to examine, fine, send. Go open process explorer......blink! restart.

To make a long story short, Xp has issues, restarting for no reason and without warning is not exceptable, losing data after every unexpected shutdown is retarded. It never gets better I tried before to keep truckin' and try to cure the problem but it never ends, even after disabling restarts after blah blah didnt help. Too many STOP errors and I never have any problems on 9x, memtested my ram, which is brand new, so is my chip and the board is barely used, everything is A-OK.

I dont know what I'm doing wrong, obviously others can use the OS without these headaches.

So if anyone has this issue or if I'm the only hurtin' unit in the world, please leave a comment.

Thanks

[Aegis]

Well my guess is that it's under an NDA because it's prerelease software, which is usually unstable and contains compatibility issues.

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I think I'm gonna try again without APIC.

I get crazy STOP messeges from regular XPpro too.