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.

Typical Microsoft

[mrbluze]

I suppose now we have to wait until "Windows XP Service Pack 3" Service Pack 1 comes out before it becomes usable.

Ulterior motive

[Facetious]

You see, SP3 is actually a tool to make users believe they should upgrade to Vista. Relax, I'm just being Facetious.

Re:Frist Pr0st

[Anonymous Coward]

Bah, you beat me to it. I was trying to get it, but I have SP3 installed on my computer and it crashed >.

Re:Only one crash

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

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!

Re:Typical Microsoft

[mrbluze]

i still don't see where slashdot covered how feisty fawn fucked hp tablet owners

That wasn't a bug, that was a feature!

Ancedote time...

[SanityInAnarchy]

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.

Limited impact

[Mostly a lurker]

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.

Re:Only one crash

[BlueCollarCamel]

My machine works fine with SP3, not a single problem. How's two anecdotes for ya, bitch?

Re:Typical Microsoft

[truthsearch]

Wow, you're right. With the Linux HP tablet market being about the same size as the Windows desktop + laptop market I'm surprised it didn't get more press.

Re:Limited impact

[Aranykai]

Yeah, Im running sp3 on my RISC system with no problems whatsoever.

Thats what all you fanboy AMD and Intel people deserve.

Re:Only one crash

[PacoCheezdom]

The plural of anecdote is not data. [everything2.com]

Re:Limited impact

[calebt3]

Your sarcasm detector is broken.

endless rebooting is not at all related to SP3 per

[stox]

"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.

Re:Limited impact

[Anonymous Coward]

Probably because he installed SP3 on it :P

Im waiting..

[rossdee]

I'm waiting for Service Pack 3.11

Microsoft:

[Weaselmancer]

The World is our Beta Tester.

Re:Typical Microsoft

[timberwolf753]

Windows Vista another name for "You been Rick Rolled Bitch"

Re:Limited impact

[jamesh]

Someone must have uttered the phrase "A sarcasm detector? Now there's a really useful invention!".

Re:misleading headline

[jamesh]

people who write this crap need to all be thrown in a cage and be made to rip each other apart.

<chant>Two journalists enter. One journalist leaves.</chant>

Actually I'd like to see that as a form of conflict resolution for almost all arguments on slashdot.

Re:Hey, wait a minute!

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Ulterior motive

[WaroDaBeast]

No, no, and no again. SP3 is meant to prepare XP users to an unstable environment.

Re:Im waiting..

[flyingfsck]

...but that would only be for XP Workgroups, what about Domain users?

Re:Frist Pr0st

[flyingfsck]

First Vista Post!

Uhh, hello? Anybody still there?

Re:Hey, wait a minute!

[that this is not und]

Maybe they're trying to drive the price of their stock down in hopes that Yahoo will be able to afford to buy them.

Re:Im waiting..

[MilesAttacca]

I actually found Windows 3.11 to be a very usable operating system. Namely, because if it froze, I could CTRL+ALT+DEL, the system would actually reboot, and then it would be usable again.

Re:Frist Pr0st

[dotgain]

Sorry I'm late. I was playing an mp3, drove the latency right up.

Bullshit!

[Daimanta]

I'm running Windows XP SP 3 on an AMD machine and I'm doing just fi

Re:Hey, wait a minute!

[should_be_linear]

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!

Re:Only one crash

[chaosmind]

The plural of anecdote is not data. [everything2.com]

Good link. The nerd-fu is strong with this one...