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From: Hillbilly on 17 Aug 2010 20:15
I got burned by this myself by lack of SSE support and after much research
learned there is a BIOS upgrade that will allow Silverlight to load on the
first generation Athlon but I missed it by one minor rev. Its probably much
easier to ensure the BIOS is the latest your system will support and then
try to install Silverlight again than it may be to do all the research to
find out what rev is which and so on because Microsoft is full of liars and
cheats and has refused to update their requirements docmentation which of
course has lies in it noting I have no problem with cutoff points but they
do not have to be sleazy liars about it.


"Brian Cryer" <not.here(a)localhost> wrote in message
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> "Henry Stock" <henry(a)the-stocks.org> wrote in message
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>> Can anyone tell me why Silverlight will not work with AMD processors?
>
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=silverlight+amd
>
> Silverlight requires the SSE instruction set and some of the older AMD
> processors don't provide this. (Presumably this is a problem with older
> CPUs not just AMD ones.)
>
> FYI: SSE = Streaming SMID Extensions - see
> http://everything.explained.at/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions/ for details.
>
>> Silverlight can't be loaded with my AMD Athalon CPU and I asked about
>> some of the newer AMD CPUs. The retailer told me not to expect to be
>> able to use Silverlight.
>
> Should be fine with a newer CPU - if in doubt check that the processor
> supports SSE. If it doesn't work with your retailers PCs then they are
> probably shifting old stuff, so go somewhere else.
>
>> It seems kind of dumb to build a technology that cuts out a sizable
>> portion of the market.
>
> Agreed, but I'm sure the developers had what seemed like good reasons at
> the time.
> --
> Brian Cryer
> http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian
>
>

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