Media Center 2005 was kind of "out of band" release. Root cause: Media Center Update Rollup 2 and Cumulative Update from October 2006 for Media Center 2005 are not part of SP3. I ran into the same issue during the beta and reported the problem - won't fix, as you can see with the final build. "For example, you can run the SP3 update package on a computer running the Windows XP Media Center Edition with SP1." You must be a Microsoft mega expert to read into this that Media Center Edition 2005 is excluded by this sentence. The overview PDF states: " Windows® XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system." This is by design and due to a very bad and misleading documentation most of the world won't know it until it has happened to them - believing that "all updates since SP2" would be integrated - false: updates for MCE 2005 are NOT included in SP3. Is there a workaround for the Win XP MCE 2005 ehiEPG.dll error in the RTM version of SP3 yet? I can only imagine how many people will run into the same ehiEPG.dll trap starting April 29, trying to slipstream SP3 intro their Win MCE 2005. Despite many months were spent to test SP3 integration with Win XP / MCE 2005, I am very surprised this very obvios error, many folks will be expieriencing starting Apr 29 around the world (just think how many customers purchased their PCs with Win MCE 2005) was not caught in the final version. It is really very annoying, to complete the XP SP3 integration with an official clean Win MCE 2005 image from MSDN, have SP3 reported " everything integrated fine" and after that to see that the installation Win MCE SP3 media is now corrupted. However I was very dissapointed to discover that a clean installation of Win 2005 MCE with SP3 fails half way through, prompting you to Insert a CD containing ehiEPG.dll, which is, well, obviously not part of MCE 2005 at all. Then I created a bootable DVD with the patched Win XP MCE 2005 SP3 installation image. I used the /integrate:C:\XPMCE2005 switch as described in the KB article and at the end it said, the integration was completed successfully. I have slipstreamed XP SP3 RTM (Build 5512) into a clean, virgin Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (clean directory taken from our MSDN subscription Disc 2429.4, November 2005), both DISC1 and DISC files (extracted to the same directory C:\XPMCE2005 from the MSDN CD image.
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