El, CPQ+AMD="AOK" :^)
here is a tidbit as quoted by Motley Fool threads:
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Wednesday, December 1, 1999
Major Coppermine snafu?
by Scott "Damage" Wasson - 12:41 pm, 12/1/1999
Intel's new Coppermine CPUs may have a rather serious bug (erm.. "erratum"). JC's was the first place to report
the possibility of a bug in an anyonymous reader letter. The letter, allegedly from a Dell employee, offered "very
little info on this yet except that failure mode appears between power-up, power-down cycles as an intermittent
lock-up" The Register followed up on the lead, and now Intel and Dell have confirmed there is a problem:
Chip giant Intel has confirmed that it found a bug (erratum) in its .18 micron Coppermine processor
which has caused it to tighten up its quality control procedures.
And now Dell US has confirmed that it has put a temporary stop on shipping its GX10 PC range
because of the problem.
Some Coppermine processors intermittently seize up between power-up and power-down cycles. The
problem applies only to some Coppermine processors.
If you're the proud owner of a new 733MHz PIII, may I suggest installing Linux, so you never have to power down
and reboot?
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