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.

Comments

Re:Typical Microsoft

[Dana W]

Oh no? you are one of the ten people who bought a tablet PC? Wow, sucks to be you. Least Ubuntu updates fix things, not break them.

Re:What we should really be asking is

[Zorque]

Sorry for pointing out that your obvious processor of choice is falling behind at an exponential rate and that AMD is going to go out of business before the decade's up.

Re:Wintel Conspiracy

[stylemessiah]

And people wonder why AMD has issues with software....always has, always will How about you people stop buying boutique processors and instead join the real world :)

Re:Windows XP has always had issues with AMD

[rbochan]

Windows has had trouble with AMD since at least Win2k. It would stop responding when you used an AGP card, namely Nvidia GeForce 256's and Matrox G400's (not that they were popular or anything...) with an AMD Athlon processor, due to the memory allocated by the video adapter driver becoming corrupted. It took a manual registry edit plus reboot to fix it.