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To: Tony Viola who wrote (140052)	7/25/2001 8:42:19 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: That qualifies as an errata-non-bug. Oh really. So, if it is found that a handful of AMD chips had a problem displaying a certain MPEG color (which I still find doubtful) it's a huge problem, but the fact that ALL P4s have problems with PCI cards that aren't bus masters is a minor problem. Remember that, for the first several years of PCI design, very few PCI cards were bus masters. Remember how those first bus master cards that came along had notes that they had to be put in a bus master slot of a certain PCI revision level? Most PCI slots on most boards didn't even work with bus master cards until recently. There are probably more non-bus master cards out in the field than there are bus master cards. Which means that every P4 system has problems with the majority of the installed base of PCI cards. But, since it's an Intel problem, it's a minor bug. "Virtually all chip sets have errata?" Yes, but virtually all errata have work arounds in the bios that correct those errata - not this one. Dan