Help for PC Gamers Crashing at Boot After XP SP3
Posted by Shawn on Monday, May 12th, 2008 at 4:59 pm under Computer, Game Platforms, Game Related Science, Gamer Life, Hardware
After Windows XP Service Pack 3 update some PC gamers have had problems with crashes during boot. Most of these crashes are linked to very specific PC builds. An article by Jesper Johansson, an internet security specialist and a Microsoft MVP in Windows Security, attempts help these crash victims out.
Jesper leads off with a comforting “Don’t Panic” notice:
There are several issues that can cause a Windows XP computer to not reboot properly after installing Service Pack 3. Most of them affect relatively specific configurations, and most appear to have relatively simple work-arounds. Please: do not do anything rash. I have seen a lot of reports of people who reformat and reinstall when they run into this problem, losing all their data in the process. There is often no need to do anything that drastic. First read this post, and see if anything here helps you. If not, call Microsoft’s technical support line and see if they can’t help you.
From there, the author talks about solutions to problems with SP3 not playing nice with AMD-based PCs. Some of the solutions are a little technical, but are still pretty straight forward.
More paranoid XP users might suggest that all the problems with SP3 are a ploy of Microsoft to get those users still clinging to the old XP OS to finally make the jump to Vista. However, that couldn’t possibly be true as it would damage MS’s relationship with the home user and drive them away not promote Vista.
via Jesper’s Blog
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May 12th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Man I'm glad my dad and little bros xp systems are working fine after installing sp3 I have Vista sp1 and it works fine just that i cant run Gears of war 1 which is wierd I mean I patched it all up etc
May 12th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
I also have SP3 installed with no problems. I even took the risk of not backing up my system like I usually do, because I am so behind in organizing all my data before a backup. I had the SP3 setup hang at the "Creating restore point" step. I even had to force a reboot of the computer after forcing a kill for the setup process. I thought I had ruined my computer, but the installation never started so I just tried again and it ran with no problems.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
My XP is dead right now. I'm thinking about just upgrading to vista, I have been thinking about it for awhile now and now this gives me a reason to. (I'm running off slacks right now). And like the post said I'm running an AMD CPU.