Ooops Intel :>

[Cenuij]

Seems some Intel CPU's have some problems with windows at least and perhaps some linux systems.

So far known CPU's with the issue include Core 2 Duo E4000/E6000, Core 2 Quad Q6600, Core 2 Xtreme X6800, XC6700, and XC6800

http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/06/26/2152246.shtml

MS Microcode Updates here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936357

If anyone find's a link with a definitive list of affected CPU's please post...

 

[Cenuij]

Microcode updates are released all the time

Yes microcode updates for new chips... new chip, new microcode. This is a microcode patch to fix a flaw [edit] causing known problems and instability [/edit], not an update, and as such is a pretty rare event.

if you've updated your BIOS recently it's probably already been applied.

Unlikely many people [edit] some hp & dell systems have an update for this [/edit] have this in their BIOS yet, for the 4 makes of motherboard we have on our desktops ( totaling approximately 3k pc's ) there is no BIOS that has the patched microcode. About 20% of the PC's have affected CPU's.

I couldn't comment on the supposed BSOD the chip flaw causes in windows, im not that close to desktop support and windows server isn't in our machine room.

This is a newsworth post, imo, since this is specifically a microsoft only update to resolve instability and BSOD in windows. If you have an affected CPU and your not sure either way if you have a BIOS with the updated microcode, use the MS patch, providing of course your running windows in the first place and have problems described in the MS KB article.