AMD's add-in-board partners have had to recall various ATI graphics cards due to a dodgy BIOS image flashed onto the cards. ATI Radeon HD 2400 and 2600 cards have been affected.
Digi Times claims sources at card-makers have said tens of thousands of cards have been recalled.
It isn't clear how bad the problem with the BIOS image is, but it's affecting all tiers of add-in-board partners, it seems.
The fix is easy - just flash a fixed BIOS onto the cards, but the makers need to get them back from the channel to do so.
Reports say only a small number made it into the hands of customers, and while the makers are still waiting to get most of the recalled cards back, they've been identified and are on their way.
Despite the seemingly swift action to remedy the situation, AMD still has egg on its face. It appears as though the BIOS error proliferated through the channel due to a bug in AMD's... err... bug testing software. Its validation and diagnostic software didn't notice the issue. Whoops!
Luckily, there's nothing wrong with AMD's 2400 and 2600 GPUs (that we know of), so once the BIOS images are fixed the cards should be going back out into the channel.
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AMD software let defective graphics cards slip into the channel - Digi Times.
