Thanks Keith. I didn't think to search for this since I didn't think I'd find anything. I did. The hits are all from message boards and forums of others asking the same question! Seems to have something to do with power management or heat management. For better or worse, I'm not sure. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9686112~mode=flat (another interesting comment there about driver updates from the M$ website. Almost every hit I read, mentioned that same thing about bad updates). http://www.techzonez.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-9220.html http://206.128.27.142/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=1;t=005443 http://forums.kustompcs.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-15982.html http://www.abxzone.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-67913.html http://www.smartcomputing.com/messages/answer.asp?guid=&messageid=354657&qtype=&dtype=&mtype=&WordList=&dt=&df=&sort=&pg=&ref=1 Ah, check this out: http://forums.devhardware.com/showthread.php?t=18856 Do a control-F there for "March 22nd, 2004, 02:20 AM". Yet another person with the Windows update site comments. Strange how this has turned into another Update Site issue! At any rate, you can see how this specific update messed things up for him. So now, I'm not sure whether to install it or not. All it takes is one person.
Also found this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815624 -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ) From: Keith Thompson Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:28:14 -0700 I believe that it is a power update for the AMD processors. Whatever, I did update it and have not experienced any adverse effects. Keith Thompson Support-OrpheusComputing.com wrote: Would anyone happen to know just what exactly the AMD CPU entry is for under "Driver updates" at the Windows Update site? As usual for driver updates, they give absolutely no information about it. All it states is "Advanced Micro Devices processor software update released on Dec. 17 2002." Last time I installed any driver update I couldn't even boot my PC afterward, so I'm not about to install it without more info. This is on a customer's PC, not mine. I'm P4. ;-) Thanks, -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ) ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
