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Originally Posted by HarryT
There are reports that the service pack has problems on machines with certain types of AMD processor, going into an endless cycle of reboots following installation of the service pack. If you have a machine with an AMD processor it might be as well to wait for resolution of this issue. If appears to be OK on machine with Intel processors.
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Yeah, there's 2 articles over at slashdot.org about the issues with SP3. Most of it seems to be either:
- HP machines which were manufactured on AMD chips, but HP used their Intel install image. So SP3 gets confused about whether to install the Intel fixes or the AMD fixes. Not AMD's fault that HP (and some other vendors) screwed up installing the operating system, but annoying.
- Machines with trojans / viruses. Which tends to always cause problems with service packs (and is why Microsoft came out with their monthly "remove bad software" tool after those issues occurred during SP2's deployment).
(I haven't read the latest SP3 post over at /. yet.)