AMD has a secret. On their 3 core and 4 core cpu’s they have six secret pins that will enable a user to crank up the speed [overclocking] of their cpu’s. Over at Tom’s Hardware they indicate that these new cpu’s when coupled with supporting motherboards will:
Taipei (Taiwan) - AMD has pulled a rabbit out […]
You can always tell when it’s a slow news day in the technology field, because someone, somewhere writes about one of the following subjects:
1. ‘Is this the down fall’ of’ Microsoft, AMD, Intel, Cisco, Dell, HP, SUN, the list goes on forever. [pick one]
2. Than we have the ‘What’s Better - AMD or Intel’ articles.
3. […]
I started noticing a few years ago that some titles of the newest games were not being released for the PC. That games were being developed for the PS3, Wii and X-box that left the PC gamer wondering. Is the PC gamer a thing of the past? Then along comes AMD with some type of […]
It now seems that it is not only AMD users who are facing a reboot problem when installing SP3 for Windows XP, but also some Intel users as well. Over at the Microsoft Update Product Team Blog it appears that a filter is going to be in place to prevent SP3 from being installed on […]
I thought I would do some follow up reporting on some issues that keep coming up.
AVG 8 is still posing problems for Eudora users. Though the nag screen from AVG 7.5 states the freebie will expire on May 31, 2008 in the forums AVG tech. support has stated that the actual date is Dec. 31, […]
Just a quick note:
Thanks to Jesper Johansson, MVP for this fix for the AMD reboot problem after installing SP3 for Microsoft’s Windows XP
The free-of-charge VBScript file is available for download.
Comments welcome
PS I ran this on my wife’s AMD powered Gateway laptop and the Intel driver was not present.
Tags: windows, xp, sp3, reboot, fix, amd, microsoft
Now that Dell is dumping their XPS line of computers, it is time for Alienware [owned by Dell] to step up to the plate. The people at Alienware seem raring to go and have plans for a low-end gaming system based on the AMD-ATI combo. But this system is going to offer another surprise. Price.
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