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May 17, 2008
Installing Windows XP SP3 on AMD CPU Machines
Over in the forum Bazcaz has linked to an excellent article by Jesper Johansson on the issue with AMD CPU based Windows XP PC's rebooting after installing Windows XP SP3. I had the pleasure of meeting Jesper here in Melbourne at a Microsoft Security Event a few years ago and the quality of his post on his personal experience and fixes/workarounds are a testament to his talents.
Microsoft are also offering 'Free unlimited installation and compatibility support' until April 14, 2009 so if you have an issue after or during installing Windows XP SP3.
I noted in the forum that the Windows XP SP3 beta testing program had ended abruptly and to quote myself:-
I pounced (or prodded) others to jump into Vista SP1 as quickly as possible as right up until release this product was being actively tested and used and bugs/issues were being filed against the product. XP SP3 has had I would say a lack of testing over the past 6 weeks and typically it is the testers that bring compatibility issues to Microsoft due to the wide diversity of machines and hardware configurations it gets tested on.
If you have an AMD CPU and Windows XP and having some issues after installing Windows XP SP3 check Jesper's blog and the TechNet XP SP3 Forum's and XP SP3 Reboot thread on TechNet.
There are also numerous XP SP3 discussions on the Bleeding Edge forums here, here, here, here, here, here & here (I hear too much!)
Posted by Stephen at May 17, 2008 08:09 PM
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