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General Update Question
Are updates all pretty much a broad stroke approach to just the OS, or does hardware configuration play into what updates are installed?
I just built a new machine. My main tool is AutoCAD which I use for my living. But on the new computer AutoCAD crashes as soon as I hit the keyboard. I have tried too many things to list here and have resorted to doing a clean install and load updates and drivers by downloading them to a USB drive on my old computer and manually installing them on the new one. Since security software is a suspect, I don't want to go online until I get AutoCAD up and running.
The install was from a new back-up disk that I got from Microsoft that includes SP1. That and the very basic NVIDA graphics drivers are the only things currently on the new machine. I tried to load AutoCAD but it failed and I followed the error code path until it took me to an error that was so vague it was impossible to go any further.
I am viewing my installed updates on my old computer which is running the exact same OS, I sorted them by "Installed on" date and can see where I installed SP1. Would it be safe to assume that I should download and install all updates after the SP1 install? (one at a time until AutoCAD will install and run. From then on I will go online and do it the easy way)
Hopefully this is not a repeat question. I researched as many manual update threads that I could find and none seemed to fit the bill.
Thanks for any help,
Rich