Windows Update?

Molester

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Anyone else notice this w/ your Windows Update?

Advanced Micro Devices processor software update released on December 17 2002.

says it was for amd k7, anyone know what's it's for? what it does?

 

dead_man311

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nope i dont even look at the updates just let them go on there own, ill have to look in to that. is there a link where you found that out or is it on your computer ?

 

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i just check daily so i can see what's going on my pc, lol
it was put out today

 

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Weird I just checked and that didn't come up.

 

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now i'm scared

 

dead_man311

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ive been on my laptop all day so thats why i didnt see anything, lol. ill go on my dasktop later

 

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Molester said:

now i'm scared

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You ever heard of Wintel? There's no Winamd is there? You've just turned your Athlon into a P4 by running that update. Too bad for you.

 

JerMe

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Hmm... yep, I'm getting it, too... wonder what's going on.

 

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I've also noticed it but I didn't install it.

 

TUK101

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That is an old patch. When XP first came out some amd chips where almost crippled by installing XP. I reformatted a couple of months ago and it took a few trips to the Win. update site for it to finally give that patch to me. I think that it is just thier servers being dumb again and not always recognizing that your comp could use that patch. At least that is what I figured when it took several trips to the site for it to install it on my comp.

 

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Do you guys actually go to the site? I just use the auto-update thing.

 

neo_18

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yah i have seen this for sum time now when i run the windows update in IE. i have seen it, never dled it coz my comps runing just fine. did a search on here and no one seems to really know what it is or what it does.

 

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Silent Buddha said:

Do you guys actually go to the site? I just use the auto-update thing.

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I go to the site. I learned a while ago that auto-update is not such a great thing as MS doesn't always seem to test their patches before releasing them.

Used to do tech support for MSN and there were 3-4 occasions where something was patched via auto-update and it broke stuff and EVERYONE got it and they all called in.

So I just remember to check the website every couple of months.

 

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I dont use windows updates, except for SP1. I find that they bog my machine down, and make it feel slow. Im pretty sure I know what that update is though. MS released a patch that allows proper use of powernow in mobiles and it happends the be the exact same size.

 

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EDIT: Wait, wrong drivers lol. Im too lazy to go find them.