Re: Serious problem with Thunderbird on Athlon X2 3800 Windows XP x64

Payton Byrd wrote:
> Ever since upgrading to from an Athlon 64 3000 to my new Athlon X2 3800,
> Thunderbird has been behaving poorly.
> 
> The very first few times it checks mail after a reboot it's fine, but it
> progressively starts to develop a problem where every mail check results
> in an immediate network error.
> 
> Thunderbird is the only application on my system exhibiting this
> problem.  I was using 1.0.4 when it started.  I've since upgraded to 1.5
> RC1 and it persists.
> 
> My system:
> 
> Athlon X2 3800 Dual Core Processor at 2.01 GHz
> 4 Gigs of Corsair Value RAM DDR 400
> MSI Neo4 Platinum SLI
> MSI GeForce 6600GT
> 
> I'm using Windows XP Professional x64.  I have installed the AMD CPU
> driver for the Athlon X2 3800.
> 
> I'm willing to download the sources and attach a debugger to the program
> if someone can lead me to clear instructions on setting up the environment.
Technically, Thunderbird has not officially been built for Win64 yet, so
it wouldn't be officially supported. Try Googling for some unofficial
builds or you can try doing it yourself, you might have better luck that
way.