HP AMD Boxes SP3 Issue
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Written by Chris Tom   
Thursday, 08 May 2008 19:31
The Inquirer says that Windows XP Service Pack 3 has caused some issues on HP AMD machines. I just personally installed SP3 on an HP AMD system yesterday and didn't experience any issues. I guess that makes me bad ass.

According to Johansson, there appears to be two separate problems. One affects only AMD-equipped PCs sold by Hewlett-Packard. "The problem is that HP, apparently along with other OEMs, deploys the same image to Intel-based computers that they do to AMD-based computers," said Johansson. "Because the image for both Intel and AMD is the same all have the intelppm.sys driver installed and running. That driver provides power management on Intel-based computers. On an AMD-based computer, amdk8.sys provides the same functionality. "