SP1 Silliness

I’ve just upgraded to Vista SP1 on my laptop (late, I know, but it just showed up in the updater). Great.

My sound card stopped working, errors showed up left right and center, and system restore didn’t work. Not so great.

I’ve fixed it now, but it just goes to show how rubbish the Windows upgrade system is. I had a look around, and Windows even posted a knowledgebase article about it, apparently it’s a problem across the whole range. However, their steps for fixing it are entirely useless. Every single step failed. I ended up reinstalling the driver, but not through Windows’ own system, oh no. That failed, “Driver installer has stopped working. Close this program”. Update failed. Pretty much everything threw up errors of some sort.

Instead, I went manually searching for the sound card driver, downloaded it, and patched the original one myself. After about half an hour of trying to follow the Microsoft instructions. Nice one, guys.

What worries me is that I’ve got 2 other Windows XP machines to upgrade to SP3 soon. Not looking forward to that.