Windows XP and SP2 and AMD 64 Processors and Problems: FYI

Contributor Icon Contributed by seamonkey420 Date Icon August 29, 2004  
Tag Icon Tagged: Windows installation

This is a quick ingredients list of things to try when having problems with Windows XP with SP2 and your AMD Athlon 64 Processor.


Many people have been experiencing major problems with XP with SP2 and their AMD Athlon 64 processors. Most are getting the ever famous Windows Blue Screen of Death.

A few notes on how to avoid this, or atleast personal experience thus far:
-slipstream SP2 into your XP installation, then do a clean install of XP with SP2. This is what i did after a few probs i was having with my XP that i upgraded to SP1 and then SP2. and it seems to have worked (knock on wood).

-a very key thing to always to think about. check out to see if your motherboard manufacturer has a bios update that solves the problems you are having; or even it does not list your problem, try it out. Bios updates can be saviors at times (and demons at others, hehe)..

-check your other hardware to see if perhaps that is the cause of the blue screen/lockups/freezes. You can always check your system logs and error logs in XP too to see if there are any clues to what is causing the crashes.

-make sure your motherboard drivers/chipset drivers are up to date and device drivers are too (or atleast on a stable version)

-power, make sure you have a lot of it, or atleast enough for how many other devices you are running. I’d say about $450 watts for your avg system (2 hds, 1 dvd/cd, agp video card, pci soundcard). when buying a ps, some ‘cheaper, generic’ ps makers will overrate their power supplies. try to stick to more proven names (ie antec, etc…)

if worse comes to worse, just install XP with SP1 only. I’ve heard sometimes thats the only true fix.

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  • Anonymous
    Microsoft had a solution to this problem using the Athlon 64 and SP2:

    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=...
  • seamonkey420
    nice!!

    thanks for the link!!
  • Tom
    Hasn't helped me. I don't have Mpegport.sys on my new MESH Matrix system, but I can't install SP2 - after installing SP2 and rebooting, it only restarts in safe mode and I'm forced to uninstall to get working again.
  • gooner
    Mine is the same, no Mpegport.sys but only lets me start in safe mode.
  • stevefedup
    I get same thing as Tom. Mesh Athlon 64 3200 etc. XP working fine before installing SP2 (from official MS CD). thence will not boot, only goes to the DOS like screen offering safemode, boot normally etc etc only thing that worked was safe mode then restore to few days ago. Put CD on the shelf and decided at my age life is just too short for SP2.

    regards all
    Steve.
  • gooner
    <ul id="quote"><h6>Tom wrote:</h6>Hasn't helped me. I don't have Mpegport.sys on my new MESH Matrix system, but I can't install SP2 - after installing SP2 and rebooting, it only restarts in safe mode and I'm forced to uninstall to get working again.</ul>

    Go to Mesh site they have a fix for installing from Microsoft site or from CD. It worked for me.
  • Anonymous
    <ul id="quote"><h6>stevefedup wrote:</h6>I get same thing as Tom. Mesh Athlon 64 3200 etc. XP working fine before installing SP2 (from official MS CD). thence will not boot, only goes to the DOS like screen offering safemode, boot normally etc etc only thing that worked was safe mode then restore to few days ago. Put CD on the shelf and decided at my age life is just too short for SP2.

    regards all
    Steve.</ul>

    See what I wrote for Tom.
  • Anonymous
    Cursor XP might be the root of your problem. I had a similar experience. I basically started over from scratch and when I went to load Stardock's Cursor XP it went all buggy. Then after I did some more investigation I found that the combination of Cursor XP, Athlon64, and SP2 is a volitle combination.
  • Flip
    The mesh fix is simply a .reg file with the following in it:-

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesintelppm]
    "Start"=dword:00000004

    You need to install SP2, boot up in safe mode and double clcik on the .reg file above to add the info to the registry......... then reboot.

    It worked for me
  • Andrew
    I have a non-MESH computer (this problem is Microsoft-originated and specifically deals with AMD 64 processors) with a AMD64 3200+ running on a K8V SE Deluxe Asus motherboard. I ran into the same problem as all the above dudes, but I was unable to even boot into safe mode after installing SP2. Here's my solution, which took probably nearly 18 hours of research and trial/error to figure out:

    -I slipstreamed SP2 onto a WinXP Pro SP1 install CD (legal), and reinstalled windows (a repair installation, technically)

    -After installing, as it is trying to boot up for the first time, I booted from the windows CD again and went into the Recovery Console.

    -In the recovery console, I used the listsvc command to sort through all the drivers and such that Windows is loading upon boot. There is one called "intelppm", which is set up to load w/ windows. I ran the command "disable intelppm", which keeps that driver from loading. I exited the console, rebooted normally, and everything went well from there.

    This is basically the same fix as the registry edit, but this is a way to get at it if you were stuck like I was without being able to boot into safe mode. I guess the boys at MS were all using Intel equipment, so they wouldn't notice that SP2 tries to load Intel processor drivers before AMD drivers, hence crashing an AMD computer during boot.
  • Anonymous
    TOM mesh ARE shit AT SOLVING PROBLEMS FAST SIT TIGHT :cry:
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