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Thursday, 19 June 2008 |
Windows XP Service Pack 3
Microsoft refers to their major software updates as Service Packs. After Service Pack 2 was released many security updates and bug fixes still needed to be released. Recently they were all consolidated into Service Pack 3 along with some new additions.
Some experts are choosing not to install SP3. There have been many reports of crashes, Blue Screen of Death also known as BSOD and various other problems. Constant reboot cycles are particularly common with Hewlett-Packard computers with AMD processors. The reason for this is because Windows XP SP3 installs a power management driver which was designed specifically to be compatible with Intel processors.
If you experience this problem, boot to safe mode and disable the Intel power management driver. HP and Microsoft are currently working on a patch for this problem.
In the meantime, Microsoft has issued a workaround for the problem. Here are the instructions.
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