Re: External monitor color problem

From	BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.laptops
Subject	Re: External monitor color problem
Date	2011-11-07 07:29 -0600
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<j98mf5$3dr$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 11/5/2011 9:50 PM, Cameo wrote:
> On 11/5/2011 4:16 PM, ~misfit~ wrote:
>> The problem wasn't actually nVidia per-se, rather it was nVidia's
>> implementation of the European RoHS lead-free solder. They struggled
>> for the
>> first couple of years to find a reliable formulation that could cope with
>> varying degrees of mechanical stress across a large soldered
>> ball-grid-array. Their early attempts mostly ended with some of the
>> contacts
>> at the outer edge of the array where expansion was greatest fracturing,
>> causing "GPU failure".
>
> How the heck do you know such details? Were you personally involved with
> them?

In court, we heard a different story.

Lawsuit alleges Nvidia hid chip defects
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10037632-64.html

-- 
Bill
Alienware M9700 ('06 era) - Thunderbird v3
AMD Turion 64 ML37 2GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP3

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External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-01 20:49 -0700
  Re: External monitor color problem mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-02 04:03 -0700
    Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-02 11:09 -0700
      Re: External monitor color problem mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-02 11:17 -0700
      Re: External monitor color problem Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-11-02 15:23 -0700
        Re: External monitor color problem mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-02 15:58 -0700
          Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-04 11:26 -0700
            Re: External monitor color problem "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-04 17:26 -0500
            Re: External monitor color problem mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 15:44 -0700
              Re: External monitor color problem "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-04 18:17 -0500
                Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-04 21:29 -0700
                Re: External monitor color problem mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-05 02:25 -0700
                Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-05 11:26 -0700
                Re: External monitor color problem "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2011-11-06 12:24 +1300
                Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-05 19:27 -0700
                Re: External monitor color problem BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-06 05:06 -0600
                Re: External monitor color problem "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2011-11-06 12:16 +1300
                Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-05 19:50 -0700
                Re: External monitor color problem BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-07 07:29 -0600
                Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-07 12:10 -0800
                Re: External monitor color problem BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-07 16:20 -0600
                Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-10 09:49 -0800
                Re: External monitor color problem BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-10 12:49 -0600
                Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-10 18:32 -0800
                Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-10 18:34 -0800
                Re: External monitor color problem wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-11-12 09:45 +0000
                Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-12 11:41 -0800
                Re: External monitor color problem Bert <bert@iphouse.com> - 2011-11-12 19:47 +0000
                Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-12 14:31 -0800
                Re: External monitor color problem wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-11-13 04:43 +0000
                Re: External monitor color problem wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-11-13 01:25 +0000
                Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-12 18:57 -0800
                Re: External monitor color problem wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-11-13 04:44 +0000
                Re: External monitor color problem mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-10 10:50 -0800
                Re: External monitor color problem wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-11-12 09:43 +0000
                Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-12 11:46 -0800
                Re: External monitor color problem mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-12 12:42 -0800
        Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-04 11:19 -0700
  Re: External monitor color problem "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-02 06:10 -0500
    Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-02 10:55 -0700
      Re: External monitor color problem BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-06 04:54 -0600
        Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-06 10:29 -0800
          Re: External monitor color problem BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-06 12:48 -0600
  Re: External monitor color problem "Ryan P." <ryannewguy@nogmailjunk.com> - 2011-11-07 20:48 -0600
    Re: External monitor color problem Cameo <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-08 00:49 -0800
      Re: External monitor color problem "Ryan P." <ryannewguy@nogmailjunk.com> - 2011-11-10 20:03 -0600

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