XP SP3 & AMD: endless reboot (does not affect all AMD systems)

[jeffy]

XP Service Pack 3 Kills AMD Machines
http://www.crn.com/software/207601657
"Windows XP service pack 3 is causing some users' PCs to enter an endless reboot cycle, and the issue appears to be limited to OEM images from Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HPQ) deployed on AMD (NYSE:AMD)-based PCs."

XP Service Pack 3 Kills AMD Machines
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Windows-XP-SP3,5334.html
"Some other OEM’s beside HP have the same practice, and presumably their users will be seeing the same issue."

XP SP3 cripples some PCs with endless reboots
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=CE17B788-17A4-0F78-31077DEE6012AB5E

Continuous Reboots Plague Windows XP SP3 Users
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2302371,00.asp


Detailed explanation and possible solution here:
http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2008/05/08/does-your-amd-based-computer-boot-after-installing-xp-sp3.aspx

According to the sources, this is neither the error in XP SP3 nor AMD CPUs.

[Shinigami-Sama]

its because HP is a bunch of retards that don't know how to properlly create OS images, AMD and Intel use different HAL/proc drivers now a days
yet they ship AMD boxes with the wrong proc drivers
I should expect some lawsuits threats around this, I doubt a suit will be filed though

[BilboFett]

XP Service Pack 3 Kills AMD Machines
http://www.crn.com/software/207601657
"Windows XP service pack 3 is causing some users' PCs to enter an endless reboot cycle, and the issue appears to be limited to OEM images from Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HPQ) deployed on AMD (NYSE:AMD)-based PCs."

XP Service Pack 3 Kills AMD Machines
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Windows-XP-SP3,5334.html
"Some other OEM’s beside HP have the same practice, and presumably their users will be seeing the same issue."

XP SP3 cripples some PCs with endless reboots
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=CE17B788-17A4-0F78-31077DEE6012AB5E

Continuous Reboots Plague Windows XP SP3 Users
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2302371,00.asp


Detailed explanation and possible solution here:
http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2008/05/08/does-your-amd-based-computer-boot-after-installing-xp-sp3.aspx

According to the sources, this is neither the error in XP SP3 nor AMD CPUs.

Hey Jeffy, your friend Bilbo here.
Guess what. The Virtual PC that I installed XP onto is on my AMD HP system. And it got corrupted not long after I ran the XP SP3 update on it. That's when I ran chkdsk, it found errors, and then got stuck in an eternal reboot. Sound familiar?
Perhaps my Virtual PC of XP on my Vista system was not corrupted by the motherboard after all? So many variables... it's driving me nuts! :)

[jeffy]

Update:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/12/windows_xp_sp3_reboots_amd/
"I have found that the problem does NOT exist if one downloads the 554MB .ISO file and then burns the .ISO to a CD,” he said. “Following that, installation of Windows XP SP3 has no problems EVEN ON AMD PROCESSOR based machines. If one uses the online update to Windows XP SP3 or the 316MB installation file then problems will arise."