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SubjectRe: Bricked x86 CPU with software?
On Thu 2018-01-04 14:13:56, Tim Mouraveiko wrote:
> > > As I mentioned before, I repeatedly and fully power-cycled the motherboard and reset BIOS
> > > and etc. It made no difference. I can see that the processor was not drawing any power. The
> > > software code behaved in a similar fashion on other processors, until I fixed it so that it would
> > > not kill any more processors.
> > >
> >
> > So you have code that killed more than one processor? Save it! We want
> > a copy.
> >
> > Do you have model numbers of affected CPUs?
>
>
> Why would you want a copy? Last time I checked bricked CPUs do not work well, even as
> decorations.
>
> I believe the processors were Intel Xeon series. The code would likely run on others too.

Well... Intel's shares are overpriced, and you have code to fix that
:-).

Actually... I don't think your code works. That's why I'm curious. But
if it works, its rather a big news... and I'm sure Intel and cloud
providers are going to be interested.

Pavel
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