From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 0:11:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6E437B763 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 00:11:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA87663; Tue, 16 May 2000 09:11:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 09:11:34 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200005160711.JAA87663@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Yowza! X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: <8fniou$2f50$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Organization: Administration TU Clausthal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In list.freebsd-chat David Schwartz wrote: > > It a new-style proc or old style? Old-style is external SRAM; new style is > > everything in one chip. I understand if you remove the case you void the > > warranty.... Just to make this clear: He was probably talking about opening the case of the Athlon processor module, not the computer case. > Last I checked, such provisions were not enforceable in the United States. > If the chip fails because of a defect in manufacturing (which is about the > only reason it could fail unless you break it), they can't exclude you from > warranty coverage for anything you did that didn't actually cause it to > fail. It is pretty non-trivial to open an Athlon processor module, and I'm pretty sure that you cannot do it without leaving traces (unless you have very special tools). You certainly void the warranty doing that (there are no sevicable parts inside anyway). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message