686B Southbridge Data Error Confirmed by VIA?

[phsstpok]

Here is an excerpt from an article at The Register.

"VIA has confirmed a data-damaging glitch in its 686B Southbridge chip - a major part of the Taiwanese company's KT-133A chipset - and is working with mobo makers to prepare BIOS updates to fix the problem."

Click the link to read the rest of the article.

<A HREF="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18267.html" target="_new">http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18267.html</A>



<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by phsstpok on 04/12/01 04:24 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[AmdMELTDOWN]

viagate?

"Amd cpu...Gone in 2 secs flat, it truly is a fast chip!"

 

[Crashman]

Tehy finally admitted it? But only for that southbridge? They have had this problem for at least 3 generations of chipsets! I would just get my last system to run stable, then, after a week or so, I would have so many currupt files my computer would start bluescreening whenever I touched it. Even the screensaver sould crash it out. So I had to reload about once a week!

Suicide is painless...........

 

[phsstpok]

Hey, <A HREF="http://www.viahardware.com" target="_new">www.viahardware.com</A> has posted a beta patch to fix the problem!

<A HREF="http://www.viahardware.com/" target="_new">Paul's Unofficial Abit KT7 FAQ</A> seems to be implying that the patch may also fix what was thought to be sound card problems.

I wonder if this patch will fix the infamous "games pausing" problem?