I guess I can't say enough about this, but be very wary of XP SP3. A friend of mine, when coming out of Church on Sunday, asked me if I had heard anything about problems with XP SP3. He said that he installed it and has not been able to reboot his machine since. His plans were to reinstall the operating system from scratch. If only he'd been watching this blog!
His machine was a HP with an AMD microprocessor.
While I do not believe the problem is limited to HP machines, I do believe it is limited to AMD processors. I believe Intel microprocessors are not affected by the problem.
My position, and my advice to you all, is to simply avoid SP3, and instructions on how to do this are included in an earlier post, for a few more months. There are no good reasons to install it now.
In the late Fall I will do complete research on the issue and then install SP3 on my machines. After that I will post here how that all went. Questions about your situation? Please write.
