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Monday, January 31, 2011

Intel Identifies Serious Chipset Error on Sandy Bridge Support Chip, Halts Shipment

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Laptop Thoughts News" @ 12:00 PM

http://blog.laptopmag.com/intel-ide...ries-6-chipsets

"This morning, Intel announced it had detected a serious error in one of the support chips that ships with its 2nd Generation Core Series CPUs (aka Sandy Bridge), and has stopped shipment of the affected chipsets while it manufactures new versions of the chip for shipment to customers in late February. The company expects full volume recovery in April and, accordingly adjusted its revenue projections lower by about $300 million. Due to the delays in shipping the chipset, OEMs may also choose to delay shipping some or all of the their new Sandy Bridge notebooks, though none of the notebook vendors has commented yet."

Given the incredibly complexity of the technology we use today, it's somewhat surprising problems don't happen more often - but Intel is certainly doing the right thing in jumping on this issue before it impacts the wider public. It seems the lessons they learned from the Pentium floating point bug back in the '90s haven't been forgotten.


Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Why Are Browser Crashes/Hangs More Frequent Now?

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Talk" @ 03:00 PM

You'd think that with all the browser development out there, browser stability problems would be a thing of the past - but perhaps any advances in stability are being offset by the increasingly broad range of technologies that browsers are required to support. The above is a screen shot from Google Chrome - about 90% of the time, when I go to a Facebook status update page, typically to respond to a comment someone else made about my status update, Google Chrome will hang. My CPU usage spikes and that browser tab becomes non-responsive. Thankfully, I can keep using other tabs and eventually Chrome will either process my request to kill that tab, or finally acknowledge that there's a problem with the content in that tab and show me the above messag. I wrote about my problems with certain Flash banners crashing my browser over on my personal blog, so me having with browsers isn't a new issue. Is anyone else out there using Google Chrome and seeing the same sort of problem with Facebook status pages? The good news here is that Google is apparently aware of the problem...but who knows how long it will take to get fixed.


Saturday, April 11, 2009

Windows Vista Security Center Black Death

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Talk" @ 10:00 AM

Running Windows Vista? Ever seen anything like this? Then you were probably as frustrated I am right now. For some odd reason, one of my computers one morning this week alerted me to the fact that it was lacking anti-spyware protection. I hadn't changed any settings, and Windows Defender was still installed. I don't run anti-virus software on this computer (well, any of my computers), so the "Not Monitored" setting is normal. What's strange about this problem is that clicking Update Now to update Windows Defender results in...nothing. I'll get a User Account Control prompt, but nothing else will happen. Windows Defender will still do a scan, but it has the yellow exclamation mark on the system tray icon telling me it's out of date. This seems like it's related to some sort of broken Windows Update functionality, but the manifestation of the black sidebar is the curious part.

When this problem happened I did a System Restore, going back as far as I could (which was seven days - anyone else noticed that Vista's System Restore doesn't go back as far as XP did?) and, bizarrely, it didn't fix the problem. That's unusual because the problem happened a few days ago, so the earlier System Restore points should have done the trick. I had this problem happen months ago, and System Restore fixed it - I'm not so fortunate this time. I've done a fair bit of Google searching and I can't find anyone else referencing it - though that could be a matter of syntax on my part. Every search I do that includes the word "black" gets me "black hat" security results.

I'm stumped. Any ideas for me to try?


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