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XP SP3 Crashes Some AMD Machines
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.
I suppose now we have to wait until "Windows XP Service Pack 3" Service Pack 1 comes out before it becomes usable.
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You see, SP3 is actually a tool to make users believe they should upgrade to Vista. Relax, I'm just being Facetious.
Let us not become the evil that we deplore.
Bah, you beat me to it. I was trying to get it, but I have SP3 installed on my computer and it crashed >.
Only had one problem on my Acer Laptop (TravelMate 8210) with SP3, it forgot that I had a wireless card, restarted and been fine since then (almost a week) so I'd say no problems for me
Wow! Your anecdote (in which you don't even mention if you're using intel or AMD) has totally changed my mind about the reliability of SP3!
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
I imaged my whole Windows partition, in preparation for the horrible instability that would be SP3. I then took a deep breath, and started the download, figuring it would take several hours.
It went reasonably quickly, had exactly one reboot (which brought me fully up to date; no "critical updates" after that), and then ran solidly while I played Portal for another five or six hours.
I was almost disappointed.
It was an Intel machine, though.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
As I understand it, this only impacts Windows XP users who are running computers with AMD or Intel processors. There is no evidence of SP3 introducing problems on XP machines with alternative architectures.
My machine works fine with SP3, not a single problem. How's two anecdotes for ya, bitch?
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The plural of anecdote is not data.
"SP3 causes the computer to crash during boot, and Windows XP, by default, is set up to automatically reboot when it crashes. That is why you end up in the endless rebooting scenario."
Nope, no relation at all. After all, crashing is perfectly normal.
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
I'm waiting for Service Pack 3.11
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rediculous.
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Actually I'd like to see that as a form of conflict resolution for almost all arguments on slashdot.
You see, that's why Windows will never be ready for the desktop: Until you get rid of all that command line gibberish, I'll never be able to install it on my grandmother's computer.
First Vista Post!
Uhh, hello? Anybody still there?
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Maybe they're trying to drive the price of their stock down in hopes that Yahoo will be able to afford to buy them.
Sorry I'm late. I was playing an mp3, drove the latency right up.
I'm running Windows XP SP 3 on an AMD machine and I'm doing just fi
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No need for CLI in Windows, if you click "Hardware Settings", there is huge button flashing in many colours, saying "sc config intelppm start= disabled", just press it!
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