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To: Paul Engel who wrote (90496)	10/17/1999 9:36:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Those MSI boards were fixed back in September.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (90496)	10/17/1999 10:38:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Alibi Paul, MSI had a problem with some very early boards and corrected that problem. If you think that having to correct an error is such a travesty, then why didn't Intel fold after the Pentium FDIV error? MSI just fixed the boards - immediately. Intel first claimed their error was so unlikely that it didn't matter. Then they tried to have people install a software patch. Then they said they would replace the defective chips if you could prove that you were doing work that was likely to be impacted. Finally they bowed to the demands of their customers and replaced the defective chips. Those few MSI boards sometimes needed a power cycle instead of a reset - they didn't corrupt data like the Pentiums (rare as that data corruption was - it was still a far more serious problem) There is nothing there to cause MSI to delete all references to a shipping product - instead they can be proud of their immediate and quibble free response to the incident. Something else made them remove those pages from their web site - what do you think it was? By the way, Intel's behavior upon learning of the camino problem was equally commendable - though they could have let the news out a little sooner. Dan