Windows Service Pack 3 vs. Hewlett Packard AMD machines...

[desuvan]

And the Hewlett Packard AMD Machine loses by a knock-out in the first round.

Apparently, this is old news, but my chronic refusal to patch my machines saved me a lot of trouble - for about a year.

Anyway, the short version is that Windows SP3 causes an HP Pavilion running an AMD processor to go into an infinite reboot loop. This is what was killing

Comments

[oddball79]

Sounds like you should follow the advice I gave you last night:
get a new gaming rig, and slap linux on this sucker. :p

[desuvan]

In another year or two, I think. I actually have an old lap-top with a non-working screen (the LCD back-light doesn't light up anymore. Probably a loose cable or something.) on it I was wanting to install lLinux on, just to experiment.

[naienko]

I have to.

Told you so!

:D

[nyankoframe]

To be fair, it's not entirely Microsoft's fault. HP shouldn't have used an image from an Intel machine to build AMD machines. :P