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Story: AMD systems thrown by XP SP3 update
I guess I must have been lucky too
I have a Shuttle computer (2002), very noisy, with an AMD Athlon 2700+ processor. I now only keep and use it as a legacy computer because of the huge amount of structured data on it. The XP installation disk is a gold holographed OEM pre SP1 disk. Over time, I have updated via SP1, SP2 and Windows Update from a clean install in Octber 2004.
Notwithstanding the offending registry entry and the presence of Intelppm.sys, I have previously managed to update to last Beta of SP3 without any problems. I therefore wonder if there has been any change in the Release Candidate of SP3 (a different files size) which has caused the much reported problems since there were no reports of these problems from the Beta releases of SP3 so far as know.
Comparative SP3 executive file sizes:- Latest Beta - 315 Mb, Download Release - 342 Mb, Executable File on the CD Release Version - 316 Mb.
There has been a suggestion, not actually verified, that using the CD Release Version has not caused any problems.
Moley
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