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XP SP3 Crashes Some AMD Machines

Posted by kdawson on from the workarounds-emerge dept.

Stony Stevenson alerts us to new information on the XP SP3-induced crashes that we discussed a few days back. Jesper Johansson, a former program manager for security policy at Microsoft, is maintaining an ongoing log and support site for users affected by any of several problems triggered by XP3. Machines using AMD hardware, particularly HP desktops, seem to have several modes of failure; others affect Intel machines.

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  1. Re:Typical Microsoft by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Except when they do break things -- like everybody's Nvidia drivers a couple of years ago. Or Grub when I upgraded to some LTS version or other last year (new kernel switched hda and hdb every reboot). I have had far fewer problems with Windows than with Linux updates over the years. The first time I tried Mandrake it attempted (and failed) to update the kernel, rendering the machine unbootable. A few months ago RHEL crashed two of our main servers with an autofs update.

    Although you wouldn't know it if you get all your news from Slashdot, Windows updates get a good deal more testing. I really like how the SP1 roll-out was done for Vista. Very professional to scan for driver issues before installing. (Actually Vista is a very professional operating system, one that has been unfairly trashed. I'd feel sorry for Microsoft if they hadn't asked for it with a half dozen different Vista versions.)

    Of course Debian stable have the best updates in the business. I have never had a hint of a problem with them.