OT: SP2 and AMD don't mix..

[CNCRaymond]

ZDNet has a blog on the Windows XP service pack 2 issue. Now everytime I see anything called a blog I have to just laugh. How trendy is ZDNet trying to be? It is a freaking webpage with comments. It has been around for years. Anyway, there is the issue with one DVD program. That is it. I've not seen any issues after installing SP2 on 10 systems, 3 of them AMD64.

According to a recently published article in Microsoft’s on-line Knowledge Base (KB), the hardware-enforced "no-execute" (NX) buffer-overflow protection that SP2 introduced to Windows XP – known as Data Execution Prevention (DEP) – has caught its first offender and it’s a legitimate piece of software (a driver, in this case). Though such incompatibilities weren’t unexpected and can usually be overcome (see below), the resulting behavior on afflicted systems goes a bit beyond what Microsoft says will happen if a DEP violation is detected and, worse, the only guaranteed fix in this case is to uninstall SP2.

And you don't have to uninstall SP2. That would be a big waste of time, and could cause more problems. Just set DEP to ingnore the DVD program. Simple enough.

From the AMDzone.com

[minipol]

Pff so the guy installed it on 3 amd systems and then concludes there is no problem? Really. What a joke.
Not installing SP2 until the quircks are out is better or switching to another OS for instance win2000 or linux

[Thermodyne]

Some AMD systems will need a bios flash to fix some microcode that hangs up on XPsp2. I have not seen a list of systems yet. Also, some VIA and SIS chipset P3 and P4 Boards need flashes.