XP SP3 Crashes Some AMD Machines 267
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.
Rename the topic to say INTEL drivers on AMD systm (Score:5, Informative)
The topic you have makes AMD look bad.
Why is HP useing the same basic image for there amd and intel systems?
What other driver bloat is in OEM systems?
Is INTEL coding there drivers to mess up AMD systems?
AMD legal should take a look at this.
I have SP3 running on my AMD right now and it's works 100%
BAD_POOL_POINTER, HID problem, standyby problem (Score:5, Informative)
Lovely. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Hey, wait a minute! (Score:5, Informative)
Easiest way to fix the problem, before installing SP3, open a CMD window, and type "sc config intelppm start= disabled".
Re:Limited impact (Score:3, Informative)
OK so far (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Wintel Conspiracy (Score:5, Informative)
Blue screen after first reboot... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Rename the topic to say INTEL drivers on AMD sy (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Limited impact (Score:3, Informative)
HP SP2 problems too (Score:3, Informative)
Stop code 0x0000007E is not a new problem (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Rename the topic to say INTEL drivers on AMD sy (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Limited impact (Score:3, Informative)
Screen rotation (Score:5, Informative)
After rebooting following SP3 install, all my monitors went completely berzerk. They fell back to 4 bits colors (I didn't even know there WAS a 4 bit mode), with some weird effects. Also, rotation was not possible.
It took me about an hour to find a way to bring back monitors to decent resolution and colors. I still couldn't get rotation to work, no matter how hard I tried (Combination of card, drivers, update from ATI, etc)
Then finally I google a bit and found a few forums with user complaints of the same type of problem. So I uninstalled SP3, rebooted, and voilà, everything back to normal.
Needless to say, I promply logged back into WSUS and removed SP3 from the approved for installed list.
Re:Hey, wait a minute! (Score:5, Informative)
http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2008/05/08/does-your-amd-based-computer-boot-after-installing-xp-sp3.aspx [msinfluentials.com]
Johansson (partly) blames HP and other OEMs for using the same disk image for Intel and AMD PCs. He also gives some directions on fixing the problems.
Microsoft knowingly released unfinished software? (Score:5, Informative)
I've experienced that, many times. Windows is unstable. The instability helps Microsoft sell new versions of its operating system.
Summary of the Slashdot article about Windows XP SP3 crashes:
Microsoft has known about one of the underlying problems for a long time. See KB888372 [microsoft.com]. It would have been easy to prevent the crashes merely by having SP3 installation do the work mentioned in the KB888372 article. However, apparently because of work avoidance, or an attempt to discourage people from using Windows XP, Microsoft did not do the necessary work.
Re:Typical Microsoft (Score:3, Informative)
Great. Another Winshill who can't understand that they are not the whole world.
Re:Rename the topic to say INTEL drivers on AMD sy (Score:3, Informative)