Good Job!

Not only did you stick up for your rights as a consumer, you lowered the price for others. ;)

So then the "fix" doesn't work?

I have the same chip, the same board, the same program (seti@home) and the same problem. I updated my BIOS and enabled the erratum "fix" and it still didn't help. So either the fix didn't acutally do anything or the problem is something else. I have been able to get it running stable by reducing the memory controller and HT link speed from 1.8 to 1.4 GHz. Someone suggested it might be a design problem that causes localized overheating in the memory controller. This theory is at least tentatively supported by my observations. Reducing from 1.8 to 1.6 GHz made seti@home last for about 10 minutes instead of 20-30 seconds before a reboot happened so a heat problem seems to be a feasible explanation. Either way, it is obvious that the Phenom was not ready for release.

Unbelievable

Besides having a HUGE issue on the product, asking much more dollars than the fair price (comparing to intel), a dropping market share, a HUGE loss of money last year, a performance REALLY LOW compared to Intel, HUGE heat dissipation compared to core2 45nm. THEY STILL DO THIS KIND OF THING TO AN END COSTUMER???? They are REALLY BEGGING FOR BANKRUPT!!!