Trouble with XP SP3 upgrade? Yes, I found out there can be, especially on HP/Compaq machines with AMD chips.
A crash late last year led to my doing a reinstallation of Windows XP. As the machine went through its updates and patches, it crashed repeatedly after loading SP3. I then remembered I had had this problem several years before and had found the solution. It has to do with some difference between Intel/AMD chips and the SP3 conflicts with some setting that AMD chips have. Anyway, if you’re in that spot, do a search for this small program that fixes it: removeIntelPPMonAMD
If you have AMD, you run it before installing SP3 and everything works as it should.
Trouble with XP SP3 upgrade? Yes, I found out there can be, especially on HP/Compaq machines with AMD chips.
Thanks. Since I'm dealing with a Pentium D, and not an HP, that is presumably not an issue.