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Microcode updates are released all the time, if you've updated your BIOS recently it's probably already been applied.

Jokester
 
Interesting.. do you think that patch will come via windows update as well or hosted on other sites since its pretty important?

Matthew
 
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Microcode updates are released all the time
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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.
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if you've updated your BIOS recently it's probably already been applied.
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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.
 
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Didn't a batch of Opterons have similar flaws that were fixed with updates? Or what about the AMD processor driver that people have to download, is that not a similar thing to what's happened here?
Can't be a massive problem as there's not been hundreds of "my core2 rig is a buggy piece of ****" topics...
 
I updated mine last night, hopefully it'll stop the random BSODs I've been getting in Vista MC when its just playing music (or left idle for too long.)

hhhmmm....
 
i'm going to go by the old saying "if it aint broke, don't fix it" and not install it until i get problems.
 
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Some of us are old enough to remember the infamous Pentium 90.
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Kids today! :D

If you want to play that game, I'll tell you how much I paid for a Kilobyte of RAM once :p

(Ok, ok, £7.50 for 1024 BYTES of RAM, on 2 separate chips, for a mate's Acorn Atom :eek: )

Alan Woodford, aged 48 and a sixth
 
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