RE: [TCLUG:2447] hardware problem

["Neal Tovsen" <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu>]

Packard Bell (along with some other well-known brands) is known for buying
chips from Intel that are otherwise classified as "defective." Usually this
means that you simply don't get as much performance out of a given chip as
advertised, so a 166Mhz CPU might only give you the performance of a 133,
but otherwise work fine. It is certainly possible to assume that these
sub-grade chips are also generally less robust than a fully-qualified
chip...

I'm probably with the bad CPU option as well.

Neal

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Wilson [mailto:wilson@chemsun.chem.umn.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 6:49 PM
To: tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:2447] hardware problem


On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Serge M. Egelman wrote:

> actually this sounds like he doesn't have enough video ram or the card
isn't
> powerful enough (if it's ISA, that could also explain it).  Do you know
what kind
> of card it is?

I think it's got 2 MB RAM on the video card (actually, it's probably
on-board video). I'm not sure of more details. I think the fried CPU seems
like the most likely cause of death at this point.

-Tim

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