Windows 7 SP1

50Twuncle

I have tried 3 times now to install Windows 7 SP1 on my X64 powered beast and it contantly fails - freezing at 8% installed
Has anyone had any success ?
Is it worth the hassle ?

spaceboy

Worked on mine. 64bit. Haven't noticed any improvements though.

23n1th

Im holding off as I've read people having a lot of problems afterwards. SP1 might be scared of "the Beast".

hc25036

Worked fine for me - but I did read (sorry can't remember where) that the install can appear to freeze early on but does complete if you leave it running...

spaceboy

Mine was pretty smooth. The download takes a while though and seems to freeze a few times. Microsoft are pretty terrible at showing how much has downloaded and download speed.

GeoffX

I installed SP1 to a fully patched Windows 7 64 bit installation from the ISO version and it installed without a problem.

Freddie_Snowbits

No problems, running fine on my nuclear power plant

DatabaseError

worked 1st time without any issues, about 70Mb download at the time, took a couple of minutes to install..

kwikbreaks

If there was a genuine problem with it you'd have seen it reported already. Installed without problems for me on two machines - one 32bit the other 64bit. I didn't watch it so have no idea if it appeared to hang or not.

23n1th

what you mean like this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/14/microsoft_windows_7_sp1_fatal_error/

Hammyman

Takes an age to install - I left mine for an hour.

And as most of the stuff in it is security related, it is always worth it.