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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (61116)	10/30/2001 1:16:34 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear Bill: That still does not absolve Intel from not blowing out when a 3.3V AGP board is inserted. It is supposed to check the pin and if open, not apply power to the AGP board. Intel did not do this and therefore is responsible for the failures. It seems like a single resistor, a analog comparator and a transistor in the AGP power control circuit in the chipset was too much for the Intel chipset designers to add. That's all thats required for any MB or chipset to check pin A2 properly. The cost to add to the chipset, probably less than a thousandth of a cent. Others like Via, Sis, AMD and Ali have no problem doing it. And Intel wrote the standard they didn't follow. Intel bureaucracy (and arrogance) at work. Pete