>> do you know of any other public reports from users that have experienced this
>> memory socket problem on their Sam460ex? I ask because I can't remember
>> having ever heard of this before.

> Several people reported it when I asked. Some got new boards (like me, but it still
> worked poorly though better than before. It was still unusuable) and some returned
> them in anger. I think the thread was in amiga.org, but I'm not sure anymore.

I must have missed this on amiga.org or wherever this thread ran. The only related thread with you participating I could find on amiga.org consists of your opening post and no reply whatsoever:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=61252

I guess this isn't what you meant then ;-) So if you stumble upon the real thread, please leave me a note here in this thread. Thanks.

> the guy who bought my system said that it was much more stable after a couple of more
> updates [...]. Poor drivers is much simpler to solve than faulty memory sockets of course.

I'm surprised that a problem like faulty memory sockets can be cured in software at all.