By Ina Fried
Published: Wednesday 14 May 2008
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Richard
Location
UK
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(Now) Happy AMD User
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Mostly affects cheap mass-produced AMD based desktop PCs such as my HP Compaq SR1519.
After fixing the WinXP registry, this PC is now running WinXP SP3 smoothly.
Search the web for: "Intelppm" "SP3" problems; look at Jesper's blog.
Some higher-end PCs are affected by other problems.
The WinXP registry "fix" is technically easy, but beyond the skills of many home users of these PCs:
Many affected PCs will probably go for "land-fill"!
Business PCs and laptops are less likely to be affected by these problems.
I suggest that owners of AMD based PCs wait for a few weeks until Microsoft releases an updated version of WinXP SP3.
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