Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 11:12:02 08/17/03
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On August 17, 2003 at 09:05:47, Georg Langrath wrote: >When I had AMD Duron 1100 Mhz I got blue screen with text: “File >C:\windows\system32\config\system is missing or destroyed” about once a month. >It was rather easy to repair however. I thought it had something to do with >Winxp. >Now I have Pentium 4 2.4 Mhz. I never get that blue screen again. It was not >only Winxp that was guilty in other words. It seems to have something to do with >AMD system as motherboard or so. Many people have the same problem according to >Internet. My experience alone does not improve anything of course. I say that >before anybody else does. :) > >Georg I HIGHLY doubt this was from the cpu. Its possible you had bad ram, faulty motherboard or a particular program you installed decided to go 'weird' every so often. Maybe you just needed to reinstall windows. Truth of the matter is, I have had more problems with my Intel systems than any of my AMD systems. Last two Intel systems I had as my server couldn't keep more than about 5 days of uptime. I finally switched it over to a Duron 600 overclocked to 1GHz and the system is completely stable.. no problems for months. Here is the current uptime... 1:09pm up 76 days, 46 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT mod pts/1 mod 1:06pm 0.00s 0.08s 0.02s w In the case of the Intel instabilities I had, I'm 99% sure it was motherboard related.. as I tested everything else completely. Two out of two systems though isn't good. I'm not going to instantly jump and blame the chip on it however, like most people. "Oh my god!? My game paused for 1/2 a second!! It couldn't be my hard drive swapping for a moment, ITS THE DAMN AMD CPU!!!!!" :) If you look up the bugs/errata on both processor companies (AMD and Intel) you may be surprised to find Intel has had more 'bugs' and recalls than AMD has.
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