Re: AMD driver update through Windows Update

From: MS (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/01/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:32:11 -0800

Exactly there is no KB#. Good, so I'm not the only AMD
user seeing this. None of my Athlon friends have seen
this show up. Did you install it at all? Performance hit?

>-----Original Message-----
>Its 'AMD processor software update released on August 29
2001'
>Download size 31KB
>Only info given is 'AMD K7 Processor'
>Personally I never use winupdate for drivers, only use
hardware manu.site.
>as I believe the winupdate drivers listed are
generic/reference drivers and
>as such may differ from the specific hardware
manu.drivers - I could be
>wrong, but having prev.installed a couple that gave probs
I reverted to the
>manu.drivers even were they were updates.
>David
>
>"Will Denny" <willdenny@mvps.org> wrote in message
>news:uobOFQw$DHA.808@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>Hi
>
>I've never had any Updates listed for my AMD PCs. Can
you please post the
>Update information here?
>
>--
>
>Will Denny
>MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>
>
>"MS" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:439f01c3ff00$db6e2ee0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>| About a week ago a driver update for AMD processors
>| started showing up in my Windows Update scan. The date
>| listed is August 29th 2001 however I have never seen
this
>| update listed until last month. There is no info in the
>| details and I can't find any information in the MS
>| knowledge base.
>| When it first showed up I instinctively installed it and
>| ran into huge performance problems. Could not get my
>| connection to work,etc. I couldn't find the update
listed
>| under add/remove programs and ultimately I had to
restore
>| my windows xp to a restore point from a day before.
>| Now everything works peachy but that driver update still
>| shows up as a choice to install. What is this? and why
>| is it buggy?
>

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