Well, after trying the patch on two servers, I'm 50/50 going on none. Upgrade of server #1 went fine, no problems. Upgrade of server #2 (the one with actual webs and some asp database hooks) went way bad. First the machine went into a repetitive reboot for about 3 times, Then seemed stable for about 5 minutes, then rebooted again. Then continued to reboot at random intervals of between 2 to 10 minutes for the next hour, while I attempted to copy some files off of it that hadn't made it to back up yet. I couldn't seem to find a way to stop it, or a method, so attempted to remove the patch. (thinking I would just re-apply sp2 and secrollup1 which had been stable) This was NOT a good thing. The computer attempted reboot after the patch removal and BSOD! (ntoskernel) Just like the old days! (first one in well over a year). I did a hard boot and system came back up, I copied a few more files, but the machine continued with it's reboot cycle for about another 3 or 4 times at which point it would no longer come back up. Attempts at repair failed, and I'm now almost 5 hours into a 5 minute patch. Server that died has a slightly unusual config (no excuse!) of Win2k Server on an ASUS P2BD system board, 256 Meg RAM, Dual P3 450's, LS-120, Promise IDE Raid controller (2 drives striped for data, system is/was on it's own separate IDE drive). and two IDE CDR Drives (one a Yamaha 16x CDRW). Prior to the evil patch, it had been up nearly 2 years without a crash and survived many other service packs and hotfixes (sp1->sp2->most critical hotfixes->secrollup1->secrollup2->boom). These two stragglers are on my replacement list of home boxen and I just wish it could've waited another couple months for their retirement and upgrade to a "real" operating system. I wish the rest of you better luck. Enjoy! Kris Kistler CISSP, GSEC, CCNA, MCSE, CCA, Network Security Engineer Give me Linux or give me death!
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