Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Process Boy who wrote (71126)	9/5/1999 9:03:00 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575845

Easy PB, the market is closed tomorrow; wait 'til tomorrow night to post the "news". It should have more affect! The CompUSA store here is the result of CompUSA buying the Computer City in the area. After several "difficulties" with the new store, I never trade at CompUSA anymore. I do miss the Computer Citys, in my opinion, equal to the Best Buy here. Looking at the CompUSA news, they seem to be in difficulty. Must be all the AMD junk they sell. :o) I would like to try the Athlon, being a poor AMD shareholder, you wouldn't want a Abit BX6 with a Celeron 333 would you? I'd make you a good deal on it. steve Oh, the Celeron 333mhz doesn't have a personal serial number does it? I don't think it does.

To: Process Boy who wrote (71126)	9/5/1999 10:40:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 1575845

Procces Boy, RE: Uh-oh! Now I'm worried! That was the last remaining piece in the supply chain puzzle! I had heard that vendors were screaming for AMD fan kits, and now you've seen them! ;-) Don't worry, the cpu and motherboards don't arrive until next week (or two). I went to the ATM, got some cash, and will go back to Fry's and buy every fan before the K7's sell. Those poor customers will take them home without fans and cook them good. ;-)

To: Process Boy who wrote (71126)	9/7/1999 11:48:00 AM
From: Kenith Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575845

PB, I have an el cheapo Celeron 333 and it locks up when I first got it. Because I was too busy at the time and did not realize the extent of the problems, I did not get it working prior it can be refunded. So I got stuck trouble shooting it myself. I kept getting internal errors. Then modem failed to communicate. I reinstalled Win 98 and it worked fine for a while. Within a week, the problems repeated. The same problems happened to my sister's computer. I purchased her with mine the same time. As I had suspected, it is not the CPU. It is the cheap integrated motherboard. Since I can not trouble shoot down to the transistor level, I replaced the motherboard, bought sound card, video card, and modem. The problems went away. Manufacturers are cutting corners to save money. Since K6 systems are also low end, it can not escape the pressure of cost cutting. Therefore, I don't think it is fair to blame AMD chips as the culprit. -KL