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AMD Machines Blocked from XP SP3

Microsoft has put the brakes on on some users with AMD-powered machines trying to update to XP SP3.

Maybe Microsoft has been reading some of our reader nightmare tales of SP3. Or maybe not. In any case, we're still getting them and we'll try to run some more this week. If you have any to add, add them at [email protected].

Posted by Lee Pender on May 20, 2008


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