First post, by Kiwi
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A few years ago, getting ready to assemble a PC for one of my sons, the technophobic one, and even though I would have preferred building an AMD based system, since Intel's P4s were just so far behind the K7s and K8s, considering that anti-tech attitude, I figured "Intel" and "Pentium" would sound more familiar because of the advertising.
I ended up with an MSI-6541 (OEM version of the 6507-L), with the 845 chipset that I was careless about reading the entire auction description, and not suspicious enough about the lack of bids. I put in the minimum, which wasn't at all expensive, and won the auction with no other bidders. THEN I read everything. The seller had written that the board had a "bad Q86", and it was an AS-IS sale, of course.
I accepted my error, paid the man, and never opened it when it came.
It showed up recently when I was cleaning a corner of the spare bedroom and I wondered what the heck is a Q86? I couldn't find mention of it with Google.
Ideas from any of you?
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Kiwi
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