Stony Stevenson writes "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 blogs. Angry have 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. It appears to affect 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 Jesper Johansson, a former program manager for security policy at Microsoft."
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Installed sp3 on a clean, brand-new hard drive after initial XP home installation,137+GB. I already had SP2 on my computer and SP3 was automatically downloaded as a update. Asked to reboot system. When I clicked on the reboot-now link, I recieved the blue screen of death. Only flashed for a second so I was unable to see the error code. After restarting computer and @ initial rebooting of my console, I recieved the following error at the time of system startup: BIOS ROM checksum error Detecting floppy drive
OMG... can anyone help me with this!! (Score:1)