AMD Defective Chips

[JotaJ]

anyone hear anything about defective chips? I had a problem with my 1.4 tbird loading jpeg's in internet explorer and someone sent a link my way...http://www.gordonfamily.com/AMD . anyone able to verify this? Oddly enough i also have the staticy sound in the background that is also a sympton of a defective chip. I contacted AMD and am waiting on a response, but was just curious if anyone else heard of this

 

[Freejack2]

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Wierd, haven't came upon an AMD with this problem so far though.

 

[stevewm]

AMD replaced my k6-2 500mhz because of this.. I got my replacement in about a week I've seen it mentioned on the web that it has shown up in T-Bird procs as well.

 

[AGodspeed]

This only affected a very very small amount of K6-x series processors back in the day. Otherwise, any of the K7's should be just fine.

 

[CTho9305]

that page claims athlons/durons can also be affected, which would be unlikely IMHO since once AMD found out about it they would probably add another test that includes such an instruction sequence.

 

[AA0]

It only happens with MS programs too, so load the pic into photoshop or something else and it will be fine.

 

[tomrizzo]

I never heard of this before, would explain maybe about my k6-2 300 acting retarded.

 

[XFreebie]

intel is a pawn of ms

 

[mattyrug]

Posted this about a year ago
as well as here. No one could answer my question. I've heard of that website before, but everyplace I looked it up, it was supposedly a hoax. Went to AMD and they said they got a lot of e-mails about that site, but said it wasn't a confirmed problem.
I ended up re-formatting and re-installing on that machine, and guess what, it still happened. Went through Video Cards, Sound Cards, Drivers, and even a new Motherboard. Still kept happening. The only original peice left in his system was the Processor. We just shrugged it off as a bad processor, and never thought anything about it after that.

 

[JotaJ]

Yeah, i always assumed the staticy sound was my sound card and was just gonna get a new one during the summer. I formatted, reinstalled and still teh problem persisted. As previously stated , yes it only happens in IE, for if i save a messed up jpeg, and then open it in paint, it is fine. I emailed AMD last night and am hoping they will respond.

 

[nealh]

that seems so strange to me that the sound and images would get screwed up with a cpu and certain softwar but not others...these things always amaze me...

anyone know why....