XP Service Pack 3 Kills AMD Machines

[capitolellis]

I built my PC with an AMD X2 processor, AUS A8N32-SLI MB (socket 939) and have had nothing but problems with XP SP3. It went into the endless reboot mode and would not boot even when selecting "Last known config..." BUT, when I hit F8 during the boot, reseleted the drive to boot from (which is the same drive it's always been booting from), after getting to the same boot failure screen and THEN selecting "Last known config" it booted up just fine. It would not boot again unless I used the same process until I uninstalled SP3.

This machine is NOT an HP. The OS was installed directly from a MS XP SP2 OEM cd. No flashed HD's with Intel images here. So my experience is definately an AMD processor or proceesor/MB issue. Thank you!

 

[Guest]

XP SP3 Corrupts Data Causes BSOD crashes and attacks HDD integrity. What software did they put in this to destroy files/folders/disks? MS is not to be trusted.

 

[Graceful Degradation]

SP3 crashed my computer- but I'm running an Intel Pentium 4 processor 530 on a Gateway 820GM Media Center. As soon as I updated, installed SP3 and then rebooted my computer-it was all over. I made it just past the windows logo and there it was...the black screen of death. I tried everything to fix it and nothing got me past that windows logo. Right before the logo disappeared, my keyboard seemed to freeze up (or shut down?) so that even commands like "Ctrl+Alt+Delete" would have no effect. I did absolutely everything I could to try and fix this problem-and I could only hope I'd be able to recover all my personal files, (mainly all of my pictures)-I called Gateway support who then redirected me to call their "pay-by-the-minute" Gateway support number, which I did, I was able to use a friends computer to troubleshoot the issue online, and I even asked local computer repair professionals, including Geeksquad (among others) for advice, but nothing got me back to windows login screen. Any attempts to use safe mode went absolutely no where- system appeared to hang at mup.sys (but I don't believe mup.sys had anything to do with my actual problem). I even bought a new XP cd so I could get into the repair console, ran CHKDSK /R many times but to no avail. FFIXMBR, among other commands, proved to be completely useless also. Finally I had no other choice but to go out and buy a whole new hard drive, installed my new xp on it, then used my other 2 original drives as slaves enabling me to access my files I was sure were gone for good.
Luckily, I was able to recover all my photos (an immediately got a 1TB external to back them up on) but updating my computer to SP3 was the worst mistake. This whole ordeal has been a huge headache- & an expensive one to boot- and in the end, I still lost all of my applications and settings! (a friendly reminder for everyone to always back up!)
Needless to say- I wouldn't suggest putting SP3 on anyones computer, at least not yet anyway. I should have waited. Give it more time. Patience is a virtue.
Anyway, now I'm back to square one, with less than a handful of apps, without any of my personal settings, and still making adjustments. Suffice it to say, I will not update to SP3 any time soon. If anyone is thinking about upgrading to SP3, I highly recommend holding off for a while until Microsoft works out all the kinks. Better safe than sorry.

Question:
Anyone have any thoughts about this issue causing problems with a Pentium 4?

Anyone have any SP3 Gateway (820 GM) related issues?

 

[Guest]

BIG thank-you to whoever posted following fix - worked for me except for me it was under currentcontrolset001 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\intelppm and change the "Start" value from 1 to 4. Reboot, and Windows should boot up Also, you can do this step before you even start the SP3 install, and then the problem will never occur in the first place.

 

[Guest]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ but no ->(intelppm) ???

i found this on regedit but i cant find intelppm anywhere...PLEASE HELP!

 

[Santa John]

Can anyone tell me if HP and AMD have come up with a fix for this problem with SP3? It has cause alot of problems with my machine and head achs. I did it once thinking it would be ok, WRONG! I took it in to get it fixed then my son did it also by mistake and it really killed my machine. I see on HP web site that they have got a fix but I do not trust them.

 

[Guest]

I messed my compaq up 3 times. now I see that HP is offering an update for the AMD. They say the SP# update has been fixed. I am still gun shy.
any info would be appreciated.

 

[Guest]

"Once in safe mode, open regedit, browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\intelppm and change the "Start" value from 1 to 4. Reboot, and Windows should boot up normally."

I'd like to thank the author of the quoted above post - it helped me.
I have no idea what the change of the value meant but it did fix the problem. It looks like you are a genius!

 

[Guest]

I just had this same issue with a 2005 HP of a customers, I booted into safe mode search for the intelppm.sys deleted it and it booted back into normal mode just fine 🙂

 

[wish master]

would this hkey fix work on my pc an AMD athlon x64 3200+ with Nvidia geforce 9400gt?