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AMD Provides Fix for AMD64 Processors’ Erratum.

AMD to Release Fix for Chips' Bug

[06/24/2004 03:45 PM]
by Anton Shilov

Advanced Micro Devices has released a fix for an erratum that might cause AMD Athlon 64 or AMD Opteron-based computers to hang. The new BIOS version is expected to be distributed among makers of mainboards and personal computers who will then notify their customers about the update.

The erratum that was recently discovered in AMD64 processors may lead to incorrect results in certain situations when a REP MOVS instruction is executed. An incorrect address size, data size or source operand segment may be used or a succeeding instruction may be skipped. This may occur only under certain conditions and may lead to production of incorrect results or system’s freeze, AMD said.

It is not clear whether any real systems have been affected by the erratum after the AMD Opteron processor has been in the market for more than a year.

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[Posted by: 1stMan  | Date: 06/24/04 04:21:40 PM]
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A week to fix a bug that never happens outside of a lab. Meanwhile Intel might have to recall an entire chipset, and worse, has a series of bugs in the Prescott that might not get fixed at all.

My how the tables have turned.

And with the oc lock - Intel is on the slide downhill...
[Posted by: Anemone  | Date: 06/24/04 07:04:37 PM]
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That's the difference between a company that think's it's the best and other that want to be the best.
[Posted by: I  | Date: 06/25/04 01:52:10 AM]
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LOL!

Every single day is just making that more and more true.. Intel is just growing more clueless every single day. /wave
[Posted by: Anemone  | Date: 06/25/04 02:28:16 AM]
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Wrongo - my system has been having a hanging problem and I've been trying to isolate it forever - crossing my fingers this is it.
And 1stman..get a life dude
[Posted by: Nick H  | Date: 06/28/04 06:29:34 AM]
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