SP3 and Compaq XP MCE Killed normal booting

[Guest Canuck57]

Well, applied XP3 and my XP would not boot. What a pita. Turns out to be

an issue with AMD processors and the quality of SP3's patching. Managed to

boot into safe mode and used another system to surf to find the answer.

 

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3276751&SiteID=17

 

Renaming intelppm.sys to intelppm.old fixed it for me. Fortunately I could

get to safe mode to do this.

 

Pass it on, SP3 does not appear to be AMD or Compaq friendly. Another

poorly tested piece of Microsoft software. Microsoft ought to pull this

ASAP and FIX IT. Or there will be a lot of crippled XP systems....AMD

sells a lot of CPUs.... as does HP/Compaq.

[Guest Big Al]

Re: SP3 and Compaq XP MCE Killed normal booting

 

Canuck57 wrote:

>

> Well, applied XP3 and my XP would not boot. What a pita. Turns out to

> be an issue with AMD processors and the quality of SP3's patching.

> Managed to boot into safe mode and used another system to surf to find

> the answer.

>

> http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3276751&SiteID=17

>

> Renaming intelppm.sys to intelppm.old fixed it for me. Fortunately I

> could get to safe mode to do this.

>

> Pass it on, SP3 does not appear to be AMD or Compaq friendly. Another

> poorly tested piece of Microsoft software. Microsoft ought to pull this

> ASAP and FIX IT. Or there will be a lot of crippled XP systems....AMD

> sells a lot of CPUs.... as does HP/Compaq.

>

>

Unfortunately for you, this AMD chip issue has been reported and seems

Microsoft knows and fixes have been posted. You just missed it.

I think it got plastered on the internet yesterday morning or so (at

least that I saw).

Here is a different link.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,145689/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws

probably says the same thing.

[Guest 3c273]

Re: SP3 and Compaq XP MCE Killed normal booting

 

Maybe you should do a little more research. If you did, you woulld see that

this is not a Microsoft issue. But you might ask the people at Compaq why

they included an Intel power management driver with your AMD system. If

you're going to bash MS, at least bash them for something that is their

fault.

Louis

 

"Canuck57" <dave-no.spam4me@unixhome.net> wrote in message

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>

> Well, applied XP3 and my XP would not boot. What a pita. Turns out to be

> an issue with AMD processors and the quality of SP3's patching. Managed

to

> boot into safe mode and used another system to surf to find the answer.

>

> http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3276751&SiteID=17

>

> Renaming intelppm.sys to intelppm.old fixed it for me. Fortunately I

could

> get to safe mode to do this.

>

> Pass it on, SP3 does not appear to be AMD or Compaq friendly. Another

> poorly tested piece of Microsoft software. Microsoft ought to pull this

> ASAP and FIX IT. Or there will be a lot of crippled XP systems....AMD

> sells a lot of CPUs.... as does HP/Compaq.

>

>

[Guest neil]

Re: SP3 and Compaq XP MCE Killed normal booting

 

I haven't tried SP3 yet but I did try a beta on a install of XP and it

worked fine. The PC is AMD based so I don't see how it can be a problem with

all AMD processors.

Neil

"Canuck57" <dave-no.spam4me@unixhome.net> wrote in message

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>

> Well, applied XP3 and my XP would not boot. What a pita. Turns out to be

> an issue with AMD processors and the quality of SP3's patching. Managed

> to boot into safe mode and used another system to surf to find the answer.

>

> http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3276751&SiteID=17

>

> Renaming intelppm.sys to intelppm.old fixed it for me. Fortunately I

> could get to safe mode to do this.

>

> Pass it on, SP3 does not appear to be AMD or Compaq friendly. Another

> poorly tested piece of Microsoft software. Microsoft ought to pull this

> ASAP and FIX IT. Or there will be a lot of crippled XP systems....AMD

> sells a lot of CPUs.... as does HP/Compaq.

>

>

[Guest Colin Barnhorst]

Re: SP3 and Compaq XP MCE Killed normal booting

 

It's not. It is an issue related to certain computers running a

preinstalled version of Windows.

 

"neil" <neil@some.com> wrote in message

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>I haven't tried SP3 yet but I did try a beta on a install of XP and it

>worked fine. The PC is AMD based so I don't see how it can be a problem

>with all AMD processors.

> Neil

> "Canuck57" <dave-no.spam4me@unixhome.net> wrote in message

> news:b0lWj.265920$pM4.157342@pd7urf1no...

>>

>> Well, applied XP3 and my XP would not boot. What a pita. Turns out to

>> be an issue with AMD processors and the quality of SP3's patching.

>> Managed to boot into safe mode and used another system to surf to find

>> the answer.

>>

>> http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3276751&SiteID=17

>>

>> Renaming intelppm.sys to intelppm.old fixed it for me. Fortunately I

>> could get to safe mode to do this.

>>

>> Pass it on, SP3 does not appear to be AMD or Compaq friendly. Another

>> poorly tested piece of Microsoft software. Microsoft ought to pull this

>> ASAP and FIX IT. Or there will be a lot of crippled XP systems....AMD

>> sells a lot of CPUs.... as does HP/Compaq.

>>

>>

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