HP notebooks recalled

HP says it is recalling some of its Intel mobile chipset (model 845, 852,
and 855) machines. Says that there may be a flaw which causes corrupt
results when paired with certain brands and models of RAM.

http://tinyurl.com/263wc

or long form,

http://www.crn.com/sections/breaking...cleId=22102166

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"Yousuf Khan" wrote :

HP says it is recalling some of its Intel mobile chipset (model
845, 852, and 855) machines. Says that there may be a flaw which
causes corrupt results when paired with certain brands and models
of RAM.

Apple does those things a lot latelly, 2-4 times a year .


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RusH wrote:
"Yousuf Khan" wrote :

HP says it is recalling some of its Intel mobile chipset (model
845, 852, and 855) machines. Says that there may be a flaw which
causes corrupt results when paired with certain brands and models
of RAM.

Apple does those things a lot latelly, 2-4 times a year .


Pozdrawiam.

Power adapters. Not the notebooks.

Q

"Quaoar" wrote in message
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Power adapters. Not the notebooks.

Well, to be fair, the HP recall is memory modules and not the notebooks
themselves.

Skip wrote:
"Quaoar" wrote in message
...

Power adapters. Not the notebooks.

Well, to be fair, the HP recall is memory modules and not the
notebooks themselves.

Actually to be fair, I really doubt that it was the memory modules
themselves which were a problem (something like five major DRAM
manufacturers all produced bad ram?). It's more likely that the problem lay
in the Intel chipset, specifically in its memory controller circuitry.
Doesn't look like any of the AMD-based notebooks were affected by this bad
ram.

Yousuf Khan

.....and they throw in a (smallish) thumbdrive for your troubles. Not bad
C.S.

fwiw, my HP Pavilion wasn't on the list but I ran the software anyway. It
says "Model not affected." wipes brow

B~

"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
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Skip wrote:
"Quaoar" wrote in message
...

Power adapters. Not the notebooks.

Well, to be fair, the HP recall is memory modules and not the
notebooks themselves.

Actually to be fair, I really doubt that it was the memory modules
themselves which were a problem (something like five major DRAM
manufacturers all produced bad ram?). It's more likely that the problem
lay
in the Intel chipset, specifically in its memory controller circuitry.
Doesn't look like any of the AMD-based notebooks were affected by this bad
ram.

then shouldn't the other notebook vendors be reporting the same problem?

Judd wrote:
Actually to be fair, I really doubt that it was the memory modules
themselves which were a problem (something like five major DRAM
manufacturers all produced bad ram?). It's more likely that the
problem lay in the Intel chipset, specifically in its memory
controller circuitry. Doesn't look like any of the AMD-based
notebooks were affected by this bad ram.

then shouldn't the other notebook vendors be reporting the same
problem?

Well, according to HP, the others should also be following its example, but
so far no one else seems to be budging.

Yousuf Khan

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 07:23:16 GMT, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Judd wrote:
Actually to be fair, I really doubt that it was the memory modules
themselves which were a problem (something like five major DRAM
manufacturers all produced bad ram?). It's more likely that the
problem lay in the Intel chipset, specifically in its memory
controller circuitry. Doesn't look like any of the AMD-based
notebooks were affected by this bad ram.

then shouldn't the other notebook vendors be reporting the same
problem?

Well, according to HP, the others should also be following its example, but
so far no one else seems to be budging.

One article that I read said that IBM had found the problem with one of the
vendors and had disqualified them but they declined to name which one.

"Judd" wrote :

then shouldn't the other notebook vendors be reporting the same
problem?

IBM had this problem with T30s

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...=UTF-8&oe=UTF-
8&frame=right&th=ad06ff4208a2a3c0&seekm=b246238d.0 307161618.3c121431%40
posting.google.com#link5


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