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To: denni who wrote (139064)	7/11/2001 4:08:34 PM
From: pgerassi	Respond to of 186894

Dear Denni: Since I perform MJPEG on my system quite a bit (you need it for video editting), and I have not seen this problem, this claim is pure bunk! It was for a single CPU on a single MB. The troubleshooting procedure is full of holes. Did they duplicate it with another CPU, another motherboard, another box with another software install? No! 99% of the time a user fails to give enough information to duplicate it in the testing lab. I checked the supposed background. It comes up as a complete fabrication. Could the one processor be bad? Yes! Was it operated out of spec? Could be as they did not show a JPEG image of the CPU (they apparently have JPEG files of other things), and if any one has seen a K6-2 CPU, the codes are engraved onto the metal lid, not silk screened (obvious mistake!). After the CPU was replaced, it worked fine. IE4 and IE5 use the same DLL to display the image. Could the DLL be defective? Yes! The fact that Netscape works (probably uses its own routine for this as it is multiplatform (it is available for Mac, Win9x, Unix, Linux, etc)) means it could be a simple bad DLL as it could be have a bit switched while on disk (a checksum will not catch that condition while a CRC check might). None of these were tested, which leads to the inescapable conclusion that this is a total fabrication. From other places, this is what is deemed likely. Pete