Mark Lord wrote:
The original Deathstar ailment had nothing to do with firmware or cooling.
But rather, a bad batch of chips that IBM had the misfortune to use a
lot of.
The chips would grow tiny internal whiskers over a period of 2+ years,
and eventually short circuit themselves.
...
Oddly enough, the Wikipedia entry doesn't include this information,
but does talk about other failure modes of the 75GXP series.
Cheers
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