Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - How not to do an update - 3VE-Online hoses many, many XP installs http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - How not to do an update - 3VE-Online hoses many, many XP installs http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Sat, 25 May 2013 07:23:38 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 07:23:38 GMT Rev9 6 -6 -1 Coffeehouse - How not to do an update - 3VE-Online hoses many, many XP installs I actually tried last night to download this enhancement, but I didn't have a lot of time, so I skipped it till lunch today.

Now, I find out that it was a good thing I did.  I'd put in 2 new video cards, and if I hadn't seen this first, I would have thought that I'd blown the system up:

http://games.slashdot.org/games/07/12/06/1312254.shtml

The new release seems to have gone well, and anyone who just did the standard install would be fine.  The problem comes if/when the Eve client figures out that your machine can handle the new models and skins...they offer it to you from a few different places, but most notably, from the actual logon sceen Sad

The bug overwrites the c:\boot.ini file and once you reboot, you are hosed.  If you've got 2 machines, you might be able to use the second to look for the thread and the fix, but some folks only have 1 machine.  And others don't have a bootable XP cd Sad

Who the heck uses boot.ini as a game file, anyway?

CCP made a great game in spite of the idiots they have working for them.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/259506-How-not-to-do-an-update-3VE-Online-hoses-many-many-XP-installs/259506#259506 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:02:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/259506-How-not-to-do-an-update-3VE-Online-hoses-many-many-XP-installs/259506#259506 ScanIAm 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ScanIAm/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - How not to do an update - 3VE-Online hoses many, many XP installs Lucky i have Vista Smiley

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/259506-How-not-to-do-an-update-3VE-Online-hoses-many-many-XP-installs/fa2904040c0d4c56b4a29df90098cf50#fa2904040c0d4c56b4a29df90098cf50 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:54:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/259506-How-not-to-do-an-update-3VE-Online-hoses-many-many-XP-installs/fa2904040c0d4c56b4a29df90098cf50#fa2904040c0d4c56b4a29df90098cf50 Jonathan Merriweather 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cyonix/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - How not to do an update - 3VE-Online hoses many, many XP installs Damn those Icelandic developers ... Perplexed

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/259506-How-not-to-do-an-update-3VE-Online-hoses-many-many-XP-installs/0dda1bbe82704c8680ed9df90098cf9f#0dda1bbe82704c8680ed9df90098cf9f Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:41:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/259506-How-not-to-do-an-update-3VE-Online-hoses-many-many-XP-installs/0dda1bbe82704c8680ed9df90098cf9f#0dda1bbe82704c8680ed9df90098cf9f Árni Gunnar Ragnarsson 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Zeus/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - How not to do an update - 3VE-Online hoses many, many XP installs It wont boot for SP1, but it will for SP2. There are people in the comments who've simply been told that Boot.ini is missing, then the machine continues to boot.

IIRC, they say it wont boot for SP1. Yay for being so bored you actually read all 7bn comments Smiley

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/259506-How-not-to-do-an-update-3VE-Online-hoses-many-many-XP-installs/9490785ac15f4ef384219df90098cff0#9490785ac15f4ef384219df90098cff0 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:39:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/259506-How-not-to-do-an-update-3VE-Online-hoses-many-many-XP-installs/9490785ac15f4ef384219df90098cff0#9490785ac15f4ef384219df90098cff0 Lloyd Humphreys 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Lloyd_Humph/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - How not to do an update - 3VE-Online hoses many, many XP installs
Lloyd_Humph wrote:
It wont boot for SP1, but it will for SP2. There are people in the comments who've simply been told that Boot.ini is missing, then the machine continues to boot.

Depends on your config. If Windows is not in C:\Windows, it can't boot without a boot.ini to tell NTLDR where it is.

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