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To: Paul Ma who wrote (100058)	3/26/2000 10:40:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1575981

paul, This is bigtime now. Probably 5%+ of the screwdriver shops are doing this. Top tier people will not do it. Opening, soldering and resealing with care can probably fool most people and as long as they use the .18 part and a top line heat sink no-one will be the wiser. They can open it up and use a golden fingers...but that costs $ and can be seen. A careful open, solder the right parts in the right places, and a careful reseal can make such a good job it is hard to tell otherwise. These stores are doing hundreds of them or getting the services of specialists in opening..jumpering..resaeling to do it for all the shops in an area. It is going on in Toronto and the dealer makes an extra few hundred and cuts the price a bit as well. The honest dealers are forced into it. The reseal jobs are near perfect now. this also changes how the chip reads to the BIOS so the start clock sniff and tell says it is the faster one. A bios change may be able to change that by sniffing some internal switch inaccessable to the SD shops. Hey, get on and save. It will not get much beyond 10% as the top tiers will not touch it and also many tores will not touch it...just the greedy ones. Bill