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Wow. I never realised this before. Reading this article I was pretty sure that even with sp3 my hp amd (nx6325 laptop) could still boot safe mode, but as stated it doesn't. Thanks for pointing that out.

Really, cause I have it installed on an HP Pavillion dv9000 laptop running an AMD Turnion64X2 processor and have been running fine for several days now

This article is misleading. The problem is HP's fault for putting intel drivers on their AMD machines, and it only affects certain motherboards, not all AMD hardware.

Holy cats! Microsoft is really flopping with their recent Service Packs, wouldn't you say? Thank you for this warning, I was about to upgrade my machine!

Don't believe everything you hear just because someone credible says it. Experience it first and then report the findings.

Yeh,my hp presario came preinstalled with XP sp2.Made restore disks etc...installed sp3 and complete system crash followed,the sys restore disks installed fine but win XP(oem)said "Windows has detected configuration changes since last install.Please contact HP support/help line".Now this is obvious as i changed the AMD 1.8 Ghz sempron to AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+,2gb 667 mem and gfx to Nvidia 8600 GTS.All I could do was download Linux Ubuntu for the time being until I managed to get Vista Ultimate (X64).Now running both in dual boot mode,no problems(yet!)

Actually this affects AMD processors on most machines running XP or Vista.

My dell got hit, and it would even boot off the vista disk. I had to boot off an old XP OS disk, reformat my hard-drive and do a fresh install, then upgrade back to vista using my vista systems disk.

Luckily enough I had a back up thumb drive of all my pertinant documents, but I still had to re-install everything.

Don't believe everything you hear just because someone credible says it. Experience it first and then report the findings.

wow this is rich, just let your expensive machine have this wonderful experience. I did, and there was no warning. Microsoft continues to try, and push that crappy update on me. I personnally think they just want to kill xp, and force vista on everyone. Vista maybe pretty but it is a big memory hog, and I don't need it. I ran it for 3 months. I realized this os was still not ready for consumers, and put xp back on. Oh my machine did crash but I made a restore point before I installed it, and was able to fix it in safe mode. I know most didn't do this I am sure.

wow...i have hp6000 and i didn't know about it until now but i don't have any issue yet and i hope to not have any issue in future.