AMD users will end up with Endless reboots in SP3

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Installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 sends some PCs into an endless series of reboots, according to posts to a Microsoft support forum.

Jesper Johansson, a former program manager for security policy at Microsoft and a prominent Windows blogger, has worked with users to tentatively identify the problem as involving only machines using processors from Advanced Micro Devices.

Messages from frustrated users began accumulating on the XP SP3 support newsgroup Wednesday, just a day after Microsoft released the update to the general public.

"I just installed Windows XP SP3 and after completing the processes and when the system reboots, the system cannot proceed to load the Windows," said a user labeled as "Olin" in a message that kicked off a long thread. "It just displays the flash screen of Windows then after it reboots again.

Most users who left messages on the forum said that they were unable to boot into Windows Safe mode.
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It is not AMD users as such who have a problem - just those with a particular HP setup. HP put some Intel drivers on that system (!) which cause havoc on the upgrade.
 
this thing happened with me but i use a core2duo proccy,so i think the root of the problem is different
 
I have also installed SP3 on AMD X2 4000+ ATI690G never had any problem.System is more stable after SP3 installed.It may be possible to have issue with particular models.
 
I keep my laptop on the download but do not autmoatically instal updates mode...

Last night, I installed some one month worth of updates post which I started getting BSODs whenever trying to resume from hibernate...Restarts would work fine though

Since I use hibernate mode pretty much all the time, I had no choice but to do a system restore to 2 days ago and disable auto updates altogether
 
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