{OT?]Re: VIA KT133A Northbridge bug reported

From: Dr S.M. Huen (smh1008@cus.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Tue May 29 2001 - 16:13:52 EST


On Tue, 29 May 2001, Joseph Carter wrote:

> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:56:15PM +0200, Holger Lubitz wrote:
> > Translation: "As Stephan Schwolow from MSI Germany told Chip Online, the
> > problem with the VIA northbridge can be identified by a warm start from
> > DOS or a Windows reboot: If the screen stays black, the chip has an
> > error."
> >
> > As far as I understand it, the problem is only affecting "warm reboots".
> > And I couldn't care less about warm reboots - my machines usually run
> > 24/7 :)
>
> I have seen this problem sometimes. I don't read German though - does the
> page mention a fix?
>
In:-
http://www.theinquirer.net/28050107.htm

it claims that MSI are offering swaps of their KT7 MBs of those steppings
with MBs with the latest stepping.

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