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THE LONG-AWAITED and much-delayed update to Windows XP, Service Pack 3, is giving owners of machines with AMD hardware headaches aplenty it seems.
The problems, which first arose just one day after the push, have been causing lots of noise on Microsoft support sites and angry user bogs.
One user [Only registered users can see links. ], "I just installed Windows XP SP3 and after completing the processes and when the system reboots, the system cannot proceed to load the Windows. It just displays the flash screen of Windows then after it reboots again."
Angry users have also reported that, after the installation, it is not even possible to boot in safe mode, usually the last resort before setting up a repeated forehead/screen interface.
Jesper Johansson, a former program manager for security policy at Microsoft and a well respected bogger on such things has provided some pointers as to where the problem might lie.
According to Johansson, there appears to be two separate problems. One affects only AMD-equipped PCs sold by Hewlett-Packard. "The problem is that HP, apparently along with other OEMs, deploys the same image to Intel-based computers that they do to AMD-based computers," said Johansson.

"Because the image for both Intel and AMD is the same all have the intelppm.sys driver installed and running. That driver provides power management on Intel-based computers. On an AMD-based computer, amdk8.sys provides the same functionality. "

__CHILLI__

AS you can see i just installed sp 3 on my amd, it went in clean with no problems infact i have noticed my pc is a bit faster

Digitalis

Whats the diff between sp2 and 3 lol ?

Soz but i really don't pay much attention to Microsoft

btw, AMD RULEZ XD lol

ACE420

sp3 works just fine on my machine also i have a dell AMD 64 pcu 3500+ seems to run a bit better also

kev2526

quote from xn--p-r-i-n-c-e
One user [Only registered users can see links. ], "I just installed Windows XP SP3 and after completing the processes and when the system reboots, the system cannot proceed to load the Windows. It just displays the flash screen of Windows then after it reboots again."


I have a AMD machine and have the exact same problem thats described above. I guess I will stick to sp2

ACE420

I would make sure all your drivers are current updates of the newest drivers and do not intro interrupt in the install of sp3 it takes a few to download/install this update since it is 66megs if you have the newest try checking what recent updates you have done and roll them back could be an issue also.

Also like to add my girlfriend installed xp3 on her HP machine and has the same AMD chip i do she has had no crashes or sudden restarts.