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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (71069)9/4/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) of 1574209
 
dEngel,
Here's some 3rd hand E-mail concerning the MSI motherboard problem.
Take it for what it's worth but it could help explain the problem.
From another BBS...amdzone via lost circuits.

"Went down to *** to see what the availability situation is. They
have one Athlon there in the store (550 MHz) and he said that he could get
all the CPU's he wanted but wasn't going to bother until he had some
motherboards to pair with them. His son now works at AMD and his job
involves certifying motherboards. He said that MSI had submitted a
motherboard to AMD for certification and then, after they had got
certified, they went back and fiddled with the design and then manufactured
some 11,000 substandard boards and shipped them out. They were sent to
Japan, the U.K., and the U.S., including Austin. They had removed a
transistor, reduced the size of many of the capacitors, and redone some of
the PCB etching. Right now, AMD itself is manually reworking most of those
MSI boards just to get them out on the street. He also said that IBM had
pushed back the start of its' Athlon sales two weeks while they dealt with
some motherboard problems of their own. Lastly, ASUS had developed a board
but the design did not allow CPU speeds over 700 MHz. "

Can't verify this....
Jim
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