September 30th, 2008

AMD withdraw from the market Radeony defective HD 2400 and 2600

The company AMD is the head of a pretty pass – must cope with the flood returned to repair the Radeon. It all began when the company technicians discovered that the bug in the software testing graphics chips has led to the release to the market a quantity of defective cards series HD 2400 and 2600 Damaged chip away at companies including Asustek, Gigabyte and MSI.

Charter’s rescue, but because of the nature of vulnerability, it is necessary to their temporary withdrawal from the market.
The problem can be easily resolved by wgranie new BIOS, which, unfortunately, requires the delivery of ballot papers which have already hit the retail channel, back to producers. According to the unofficial sources, one of the largest manufacturers already picked up one thousand damaged Radeon 20-30.

Fortunately, the fault was quickly detected and distributors informed at the time, so that on the shelves of shops and end-users zdążyła hit only a small quantity of defective cards.
Let us hope, also for the sake of AMD, it is only a one-off setback.