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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. Frist Pr0st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Frist Pr0st !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Mahahahahahhahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!

    Man I hate Windows

  2. Re:Typical Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    WINDOWS VISTA LOL

  3. SOME! JUST SOME! by CEOBallmer · · Score: -1, Troll

    SOME, at all or a lot! Who uses AMD cr@p anyways? http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

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  4. Re:Typical Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    I've been using SP3 RC for a few months now without any problems.

    Great. Another Winshill who can't understand that they are not the whole world.

  5. Re:Typical Microsoft by Dana+W · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  6. Windows XP has always had issues with AMD by pembo13 · · Score: -1, Troll

    It didn't start with SP3. Various configurations of Windows XP have trouble even detecting and utilizing the full speed of some AMD processors. I have fought several hours with this issue myself.

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    1. Re:Windows XP has always had issues with AMD by rbochan · · Score: 0, Troll

      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.

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  7. Re:What we should really be asking is by Zorque · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  8. Re:Wintel Conspiracy by stylemessiah · · Score: 0, Troll

    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 :)