So the other day, I had a client with an HP Desktop computer that was the victim of a harsh malware attack. So harsh in fact that it had to be reinstalled. So I installed from the recovery partition, and then went to update to SP3. Upon reboot, it bluescreen’d and then would just keep bluescreening. Soooo, thinking that the SP3 install bombed, i re-installed from the recovery AGAIN, and then tried SP3 again… And it bombed again! Wow, so I’m thinking now its no longer a SP3 fail. I did some research and found this site. (Click here to see it.)
Turns out if you have one of these HP desktop machines with a AMD processor you need to follow the steps mentioned in this page above BEFORE installing SP3. Its specifically a registry edit that has to be made so the SP3 doesn’t trigger installing an Intel file, thus causing the bombfest after the SP3 install.
You still learn new things all the time doing this stuff. Jeesh…