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To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (76867)	9/30/2011 10:59:36 AM
From: Sexton O Blake	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

A few years ago I bot a used HP and if I remember correctly it had XP SP2. Everything was working fine and then I upgraded to SP3. As soon as I RDPed into the machine, I would be kicked off. I looked at the HP (host) and it had rebooted. After doing this a few times and then testing it via the notebook (which was beside the HP) I noticed that the HP would do a BSOD with a message and then reboot. I Googled and found page after page of SP3 problems and Windows not doing anything to solve it. Why oh why did I upgrade to SP3? Then I found out of no where (about 10 Google pages in) - a lone forum post that mentioned SP3 and Video drivers. Literally one post. The light bulb went into my head - even though the machine was circa 2006, the video was very good and to that day when I upgraded to SP3, they still actively maintained the drivers at Nvidia. I updated the video driver and boom - problem solved. I make it a habit to always look routinely and install video driver updates ... and yes each time I always ensure to "preserve" the drivers I am installing, just in case a new issue develops which creates some doubt if the updated drivers are the culprit.