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To: Paul Engel who wrote (48920)	7/25/2001 9:01:03 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: AMD - on the other hand Lying again, I see. That 3rd party report claimed that AMD said that, in the past, there were characteristics that were missed by their testing that could have permitted a few defective chips to ship. I've seen defective Intel chips that shipped, in ones and twos, also. By contrast, ALL P4s have problems with PCI cards that aren't bus masters, yet you are unconcerned about that. Remember that, until recently, very few PCI cards were bus masters. Remember how those first PCI cards that were bus masters 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 far 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, you don't see it as a problem. "Virtually all chip sets have errata?" Yes, but virtually all errata have work arounds in the bios that correct those errata - not this one.