Intel Corp. says that a minor Pentium 4 bug, discovered by PC makers working with chips sent out for product testing, resulted in a last minute update of the P4 BIOS. One function of the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) is to fix errata found in a chip after manufacturing. In this case, the problem concerned certain instructions that would cause the chip to overwrite data.

In related news, Gigabyte's GA-8TX motherboard is the third announced, with Aopen's AX4T and Intel's D850GB Garibaldi, to support the P4.

For more on the BIOS fix, read zdnn.com and dailynews.yahoo.com. For more on the GA-8TX, go to theregister.co.uk.