{"id":191,"date":"2008-12-03T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2008-12-03T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T23:10:00","slug":"google-knows-everything-about-windows-xp-sp3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/03\/google-knows-everything-about-windows-xp-sp3\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Knows Everything … about Windows XP SP3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, turns out my Windows XP SP3 problem wasn’t really a Windows XP SP3 problem at all, other than it happens to Windows XP Service Pack 3 when installed on Hewlett Packard AMD-based computers that were factory installed with an Intel-based image of Windows XP. A key Intel power management DLL isn’t present, but it is referenced by the system configuration, and when Windows XP Service Pack 3 installs, it sees that the file should<\/span> be there (according to the system config) but isn’t (according to what it can see on the hard drive) so it installs it. And on the next boot … boom, Windows gets stuck in an endless cycle of reboots every time it tries loading the Intel driver on an AMD processor.<\/p>\n

The simple solution? Boot in safe mode and delete the offending file<\/a>. There are other solutions<\/a>, which I found at this blog by a Microsoft expert<\/a>, which I found via this eWeek article<\/a>, which I found via a Google search for [ windows xp sp3 problems ]<\/a>. Now, I had tried Google searches the previous night at umptynothing in the morning, but when I sat down with my I-wuv-my-Mac laptop in front of the dead computer, logged on to the home wireless network, and banged out that new query fresh, it worked, first link, first time.<\/p>\n

So it’s true: Google Knows Everything.<\/p>\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n

P.S. The previous article is my own personal opinion and does not reflect the opinions of my employers at the Search Engine That Starts With a G. Or, hell, maybe it does, but I was using that phrase even back when I worked for the Search Engine Company That Started With an E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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