XP SP2 RC2 Woes: Followup

So after my computer mysteriously decided it wasn't going to connect to the internet anymore (got me on that one, tried everything short of throwing the computer out the window) I determined my computer was destined to its second rebuild in 1 month. Most commonly I do this every 6 months, but not  having internet can put a damper on that experience. So, even after my initial woes of SP2 not working with my DVD burner, and having it freeze on me, I decided, what the hey - I'll do a fresh install and try it out again.

Much to my dismay, things still weren't working. My DVD burner still wasn't being recognized via IEEE 1394, and now that I've installed McAfee 7.1 ontop of SP2, it crashes everytime which doesn't bode well for very secure using. So, I poked around the newsgroups for SP2, and found others having the same problems as me. Well, not as far as virus scanners, but found that people that also have the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 PCI card that has onboard IEEE 1394 suddenly stopped after SP2 upgrade. Err, so I added myself to the list - yay! of people with the same problem.

I think I'll just have to uninstall SP2, again, to get my DVD burner (and actually my IEEE 1394 devices - this includes my MiniDV camcorder) back as well as getting a virus scanner running. I sure hope Microsoft and Creative gets this issue solved before they “go-live” with SP2, because you will have many unhappy customers if things don't work as expected after an upgrade of this magnitude.

BTW - if you install McAfee prior to installing SP2, things work great...its just installing afterwards that bombs the application.