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To: eplace who wrote (20762)	11/27/2000 8:18:13 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: have you found out any other information The caught at least one problem right when the systems first shipped: Intel swats Pentium 4 bug Chip maker delivers a fix before processor ships in PCs, tweaking a glitch related to how the chip handles certain instructions. By John G. Spooner, ZDNet News November 21, 2000 12:45 PM PT Intel Corp. got its first Pentium 4 bug fix out of the way just before the new chip reached consumers. The chip maker acknowledged on Tuesday that it updated its Pentium 4 BIOS code, fixing an erratum, or glitch, related to how the chip handles certain instructions. zdnet.com Whether the problems seen in retail models are just cases where this simple fix wasn't completed is hard to say. It is very easy to update a system bios (takes about 5 minutes). So it is difficult to understand why some stores have pulled their displays and stopped taking orders for P4 systems, even systems sitting in their stockrooms, if this is all that is wrong. It would be so easy to load such a fix and make those sales. But it may be no more than a case of HP and Compaq being afraid to have store techs load a software update. Either that or another problem has surfaced - those who actually know aren't talking. The market is too busy trashing AMD for a ficticious future price cut to pay any attention to defective Intel systems being pulled off the shelves in stores across the country. It's really quite amazing. Regards, Dan