Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald
From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Compaq find problem with chip
Message-ID: <110200023@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 2 Nov 89 01:40:20 GMT
References: <2725@ganymede.inmos.co.uk>
Lines: 14
Nf-ID: #R:ganymede.inmos.co.uk:2725:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:110200023:000:590
Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Nov  1 09:15:00 1989


There have been other errors in these and other chips. For 
example, for over a year all 386's would simply hang up given
certain sequences of events including 387 instructions, paging,
and interrupts. I got bit by this badly - and it took months to
get IBM to fix my computer.

MAnufacturers don't like to fix bugs when it means replacing
bad parts - especially when every single compter they have sold to date
has a bad CPU! I'll bet there are still Model 80's out there with
the bad chips. (Any chip without DX after the 386 is defective -
not including SX's of course).

Doug McDonald