Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Jan 2018 23:40:18 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Bricked x86 CPU with software? |
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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.
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