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1. kevanbrown

   
   Posted on: January 26, 2008 at 10:10AM  

   I have an Alienware m9700 laptop.  I normally run Windows Vista Ultimate x86 on it.  I have never been able to successfully resume from hibernation with Windows Vista installed.  When trying to resume, the "Resuming" animation appears for a while and then switches to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner.  I was really hoping SP1 would fix this VERY annoying problem, so I installed the Vista x86 with SP1-integrated distribution from the MSDN download site and then loaded all vendor drivers for the laptop.  I still have the same hibernation problem with a fresh OS with SP1 and driver load; very disappointing.

   BTW, I've attempted multiple times to install the problem reporting tool to send information about this issue but it will not install and does not report an error.  The Windows Installer dialog appears for a second and then disappears never to be seen again.
2. Nick White

   
   Posted on: January 28, 2008 at 6:59PM  

   Hey kevanbrown:  I've heard of this issue before and that it has been resolved for many customers by installing the Performance and Reliability updates that form part of SP1 (and are mentioned here on this blog).  You might also check out our public forum deducated to SP1 to see if anyone there has any advice or guidance on the matter:  http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1992&SiteID=17.  Hope this information helps.
3. Hannabull

   
   Posted on: January 30, 2008 at 6:46PM  

   I've had SP1 RC since about Dec 15th. I have yet to notice any changed in my system at all really. Maybe a slight drop in RAM usage, but not much. It still seems to run at a decent speed. (Running Vista Ultimate x64 on a 2.8 gig P4 with 1 gig of RAM.) I mainly only use my machine for music, gaming (WoW) and web surfing though. Wonder if that makes any difference.
4. nectario

   
   Posted on: January 31, 2008 at 11:51AM  

   I have a dual Quad core XEON x5482 3.2GHZ (8 cores) with a 1600Mhz bus speed. I played an mpeg-2 1080p video. All was fine, but as I was moving the video around the screen the video glitched. I would not expect a glitch on such a powerful computer even if I am moving it accross the screen. I have an 8800GTX Nvidia graphics card.

   Thank you

   -N
5. BobBinns

   
   Posted on: February 02, 2008 at 11:19AM  

   Hi,

   I am and MSDN member.  There does not seem to be an official place to log problems installing SP1 RC1 so I am happy you have this Blog.

   I have two Vista Ultimate Machines (All updates, all language packs).  I installed SP1 on them both via Windows update.  The SP1 Installs successfully on both (so it said) but I cannot login afterwards I get an error something like:

   Login failed, Group Policy Client service failed the logon

   Memory access error

   Neither machine has ever been domain joined.

   My only recourse was to go back to the last restore point (which work quite well thankfully).  

   Both machines have a pretty different set of hardware/software.  One is a dual core laptop used for development (Visual Studio, etc...), the other is a Quad core Home desktop with lots of games.

   Any ideas?

   Thanks,

   Bob Binns
6. Nick White

   
   Posted on: February 03, 2008 at 5:23PM  

   Hey BobBinns:  actually, there *is* a place for your to log issues experienced with SP1 -- this forum, dedicated solely to that purpose:  http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1992&SiteID=17.  Please direct your feedback there, and thanks for reading.
7. Robert Lacroix

   
   Posted on: February 10, 2008 at 9:46AM  

   @tokm: The "Evaluation copy" text on the desktop after uninstalling pre-RTM versions of SP1 will disappear after rebooting the computer once more.