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More NX Issues.......

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18094
Windows XP SP2 a tad borked on AMD64 chips
Repeated re-boots. So what's that about the NX flag?
MICROSOFT HAS ISSUED a Knowledge Base article which says that if you install Windows XP SP2 on a machine with an AMD 64-bit chip your computer may repeatedly re-start.
The workaround, said Microsoft, is to remove Windows XP SP2 from your computer.

So let's get this right. You buy an AMD64 machine because you want the extra protection the NX feature will give you. That causes your machine to repeatedly re-start. So you have to remove SP2 which supports this nifty AMD feature.


*** (Patient) Doctor.... Doctor..... my arm always hurts when I do this...

*** (Doctor) Then don't do that

One of the questions posed by the "Tap Dancers" to the revelation of the first AMD64 virus was something like.... Isn't it still better to have NX then not have it. Based on random reboots in SP2, IMO, I guess my answer now to that question is.... No. But, not to worry, I'm sure Microsoft will get it all worked out..... By the time intel introduces it's NX implementation, that is.

I bet Mike Mageek..... ummmmm, I mean "The Inquirer Staff" (cough) almost choked, writing that article. I guess the Droids are finding out something the intel fans have known for a long time..... Being the first to do something, isn't necessarily always all it's cracked up to be