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Old 13-05-2008   #38 (permalink)
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Re: Windows xp sp3 thread

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Originally Posted by gamma1 View Post
I loaded SP3 successfully on my two laptops, but got this same endless reboot on my HP desktop. I was able to boot to Safe Mode and from there did a System Restore. So I guess the desktop remains SP2
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Originally Posted by alan1476 View Post
I tried to install it but my computer crashed and all I got was endless looping on reboot, I had to install the whole registry again to get it to work
It sounds as if you both might have HP computers with AMD processors. The fix is to boot into safe mode and disable "intelppm" from the recovery console.

See this link for details:

http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesp...ng-xp-sp3.aspx
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