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To: Monty Lenard who wrote (26174)	1/24/2001 8:28:49 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: we had to get another one (which btw solved the problem). What anti-static procedures were you following? (there's always the chance that this chip was good when shipped but damaged prior to its installation). Particulary in a northern climate during heating season when the relative humidity of the room is low, it's easy to build up a static charge, then discharge it into a pin on the chip. Dan

To: Monty Lenard who wrote (26174)	1/24/2001 9:00:53 AM
From: niceguy767	Respond to of 275872

Monty: "I certainly hope it was just a fluke but will know soon as we are in the process of building several more. I really would hate to have to go back to intel processors. AMD has the opportunity to become a REAL player against intel and I hope they don't botch it." Everything is relative...Imagine how you'd feel if you'd purchased a 1.13 gig P3 or one of the first P4's (or even later perhaps)!!! Just don't think a realistic alternative is provided by "I really would hate to have to go back to intel processors."

To: Monty Lenard who wrote (26174)	1/24/2001 10:07:40 AM
From: dale_laroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Considering the processor glut, I seriously doubt even Intel is pushing everything out the door just to get the volume. Why would AMD be pushing quantity with 2 million unsold processors?

To: Monty Lenard who wrote (26174)	1/24/2001 10:34:39 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

The time to be concerned about a falloff in quality control is when sales are being squeezed. That usually means that QC has been axed and/or they are pushing already known, defective product so that the shipments look good for that quarter. Then when they are returned the next quarter, it goes into a different slot in the quarterly report.

To: Monty Lenard who wrote (26174)	1/24/2001 12:00:16 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Monty. Where did the CPU come from? sealed pack? OEM/retail? How good is install tech? Static is the ever present enemy and the guy should hold the case or motherboard at an exposed metal point to make sure there is little differential. Low voltage small feature parts are even more susceptible to this problem these days as they cannot absorb even a small charge without going above the death voltage. Bill