AMD bug - anyone ever seen this?

[Snommis69]

http://www.gordonfamily.com/AMD/
Never seen this happen, and I run 90% AMD. Anyone else?

[KBPERF]

yep, I *think* I may have had that happen today. I had been using a 1ghz tbird 200fsb clocked up to 1104mhz @ 266fsb on a Abit KT7A-RAID with creative tnt2 ultra. ran stable for months. When I put the same CPU in a new Abit KT7A(not RAID)board today, I had small areas of pixels the wrong color. tried all the drivers I could find for card and monitor. Put in the exact same video card and drivers I was using on the old board and still the same problem. I finally clocked it down to 1000mhz @266fsb and it went away....for how long....who knows....
I have also used many AMD's and this is a first for me. till I read your post I thought the video card was going out.
maybe just a random fluke and not the issue as this.

[SpudBud]

Sounds fishy/remote, have used a number of AMD K-6/300 and Classic Athlon 800 and early Thunderbird 800's with no problems. Propably caused by the chipset and other perpherial combinations. <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0">

[Radical Dreamer]

I thik that this is a bunch of crap, I have used many amd's in the past and I have never had a prob, maybe its just very very uncommon

[kingtbone]

Maybe it's a "Gordon Family" hoax. I find it interesting that they would put that on their own family home page, and have no one else know about it. Still though, it sounds like they troubleshot it correctly...

[Joker1]

Originally posted by KBPERF:
<STRONG>yep, I *think* I may have had that happen today. I had been using a 1ghz tbird 200fsb clocked up to 1104mhz @ 266fsb on a Abit KT7A-RAID with creative tnt2 ultra. ran stable for months. When I put the same CPU in a new Abit KT7A(not RAID)board today, I had small areas of pixels the wrong color. tried all the drivers I could find for card and monitor. Put in the exact same video card and drivers I was using on the old board and still the same problem. I finally clocked it down to 1000mhz @266fsb and it went away....for how long....who knows....
I have also used many AMD's and this is a first for me. till I read your post I thought the video card was going out.
maybe just a random fluke and not the issue as this.</STRONG>

If it's OC'ed then there is no garuntee that the cpu will function correctly.

[kingtbone]

Especially if you had it running at 266 FSB. I'll go out on a limb and promise you that it will work perfectly at 1 Ghz on 200 FSB. O/C'ing can incur numerous problems, as will almost certainly running it at an increased/unrated FSB.

[Budd]

i think i have seen this. a friend of mine has a computer with a K6-2 400 and its doing the same thing. i just assumed it was IE, but maybe its not. anyone have any ideas how to fix it?

[KBPERF]

I think I figured it out to be the drivers. using the 12.41 drivers the first time I tried to install them I dont think they actually installed. I clocked CPU back up to where I had it along with the same video card, for at least 6 months. I reinstalled the drivers today and this time I got a microsoft digitally signed driver window that didnt come up before. video is fine and all seems fine. the symptoms seemed to match the original post here and I thought it might be the same but I guess not.

[TrackMan]

I have a problem like this on my k6 (not a k6-2) where the default clock speed is 233. sometimes when scrolling through images with i.e. the part that was covered by the screen that i then uncover by scrolling comes up flakey. i used to have it overclocked to 266 w/ a 75 mhz bus speed on a tx chipset, and this problem occured infrequently, only about once every month. it would clear up right away when I rebooted windows. it migt have been a video card problem, becasue when overclocked all true type fonts got flakey. anyways, when not overclocked the jpeg srew-up only hapened once.

moral of the story: expect monkey business from your computer if you overclock. not that it's stopped me. . .

[wholeeo]

I remember when this just said the k6-2 family. I think intel added the Duron and Athlon for the hell of it.

Does the Gordon Family have any stock in Via or Intel?

[JWW]

Yeah, I had this happen to me once after I tried to install a Chrome orb on my T-bird 800. I acidentally chipped a bit off the core, and then it started. Worked fine before...and everything else seemed to work fine, just JPGs were screwed up.

So it is just chips that were damaged in shipping, most likely.

[cc_penguin]

I have seen this one time actually. I had a buddy that was working on a system that would not display Jpegs while on the internet. He tried everything, reloading, video card the whole nine yards. The problem wasnt fixed until he replaced the processor. Blew us away. It was in an older Ibm (2137 series I beleive it was.)

[pkxunux]

lego my cpu!... lol
i have played and oc'ed many amd cpu's going back to the k5's and the only time when it screwed up was when i got greedy... my condolences to the gordon family that you weren't able to get the additional 50 - 100 mhz out of that cpu.. and to the the other jokers out there... keep it up, it's with dumbarse posts created by you that give intel and via the ammo to load the gun...
later..

[0E_Exception]

I have actually seen this in a 350 K6/2. I had AMD's R&D all over it too, it was comical. They finally just decided that it was a bad pro. and replaced it. Just glad it wasn't my machine. Though, it's interesting to note that it came out of a Crapaq.