> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Ma [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 4:13 PM
> To:   EMC-PSTC
> Subject:      Chip noise halts Intel 820 motherboard
> 
> 
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20000510/tc/chip_noise_halts_intel_820_pro
> duction_1.html
> 
> INTEL will replace motherboards using its 820 chip set due to noise caused
> by simultaneous switching of signals.
> ------------
> 
> Can anybody be more specific or just make a speculation by using EMC
> language?
> 
> Another question is irrelevant to EMC. I am wondering why it took so long
> - five months from field failure report to recreating the problem inside
> INTEL? See quotation below:
> 
> First noted in November
> "Intel began shipping the MTH last November. The problem was brought to
> light by an Intel customer who observed the problem.... Intel followed up
> on the report and observed the problem in its own tests earlier this
> month." 
> 
> 
> 
> Barry Ma
> [email protected]
> 
Barry:

My guess is that they must have spent a lot of time rebooting Windows.

>;)

Ed


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