if the problem is just a simple digit on a part that is permanently covered by a hunk of aluminum then i am willing to help them dispose them. Send me many units and I won’t even charge any disposal fee
I did something like this once. I swapped the “power” and “status” LED silkscreen labels on 100 PCBs on a custom device. The design rules checker in my software doesn’t catch labeling errors.
If you think your design is finally done… it’s not. Check it again. Go to bed, and check again in the morning. And check again in the evening.
When I was a kid my dad had a computer. A 486. It didnt have a CMOS battery. He went to the computer fair to talk to the guy he bought it from and he got another copy of the manual.
Manual said to use some weird 3.7V lipo pack across header J1 or something like that.
He did that.
And it turned out that was the wrong manual.
The battery exploded. Like, loud as hell. 3.5" drive bay covers shot clear across the room and put a mark in the closet door that’s still there to this day.
How did you fix that? Swap the LEDs in software?
Since it’s a PCB, unlikely. It’s likely hardwired In the circuit. You’d need to physically change the printed label in that case
No. Swap the labels and make the PCB again.
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Not particularly harmful, but so embarrassing. I think many of us have made similar mistakes. Thanks for the laugh.
Some poor intern is busy manually changing the typo on each cpu.
Waiting for the re-drawing of the text on the lid to effect the flatness of the cpu and ruin cooling or something…
Still, a much nicer issue to have than Intel is fighting!
Won’t the thermal paste fill the gap, as it usually does?
It’s still less conductive than metal. The latest/best CPU coolers have started to ship coolers with cold plates that are shaped to deliberately curve slightly to match how intel/AMD CPUs curve differently
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You know, I’ll take it at this point
AMD: the labeling on our processors is wrong and that’s a serious issue that requires a recall.
Intel: our processors are frying themselves, we have a software fix in the works, but there’s no way to guarantee preventing it in the mean time and no matter how long you’ve had the processor before it stops working properly or just flat out dies, we aren’t going to recall, replace, repair, or otherwise compensate you for the crappy expensive product we sold you.
I mean it’s sad when an issue that would likely lead to confusion and scamming people, but otherwise just a visual issue is more important to one company than a serious defect is to another, and that it’s such a “feel-good” thing to see the former when it should be a major problem that their QE didn’t catch that before shipping a major product.
