Gregy wrote:
>Bernie,.....if your chip temp is not exceeding specs, but is still
>doing the speed backoff (and you have pretty well determined that
>this is a "bug" not a "feature") and it is still the company's
>responsibility, then I think you are right to take it back...the
>chip seems to be "out of tolerance"....sometimes we struggle
>and fiddle with something, just because we don't want to admit
>defeat, but we really should just give it back to the people
>who mal-manufactured it...
I might wait a while until they don't have any 400MHz left in the store and
ask to get a 450MHz (or faster if that's also out) instead (which is my
right of course).
I bet the people in the store (who I happen to know a little since I've
been there way to many times since they started several years ago) only
will think it's funny when I come in demanding a new CPU since the current
one isn't working.
I can see that they almost start to laugh every time I mention that I want
to know how something works in DOS and/or Win 3.x and/or Linux. It's almost
become bad habits for me to ask even if I know the answer and for them to
answer if I don't ask (often the answer is that they don't know).
Besides I need to figure out were the store is located now (which is the
fourth place they've been - I've of course visited every place since it's
the only *real* store in town).
//Bernie
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