service pack 3 questions

[Hooahguy]

im planning to upgrade to SP3.
but i have a few questions.

1) will it wipe my hard drive?
2) is it really necessary to upgrade? i only want to upgrade to play mass effect 2.

thanks

[pevergreen]

im planning to upgrade to SP3.
but i have a few questions.

1) will it wipe my hard drive?
2) is it really necessary to upgrade? i only want to upgrade to play mass effect 2.

thanks

1) No...its just a pack of windows updates
2) You don't have to, but its worth it. When it first came out, IIRC, it was 50% chance of making your computer faster, 50% chance of killing it.

It killed two of our computers 3 times in a row. But now? I've done 15 upgrades to it and not a single issue. However, I'd still back up your important files.

[Hooahguy]

you say that it had a 50% chance of killing it b/c of problems.
have the problems been fixed since then?

[pevergreen]

As per the second half of my post, yes they seem to be.

[Beskar]

I wonder what sort of maintence you have to do to get that effect.

[Hooahguy]

I wonder what sort of maintence you have to do to get that effect.

huh?

[Beskar]

It was in reply to pevergreen's computer problem. I was wondering how he ended up with results like that.

[pevergreen]

Oh, I didn't reply either cause I didn't get what you were saying.

How did it happen? No idea.