Re: Loading Pentium III microcode under Linux - catch 22!

[Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au>]

Chris Rankin wrote:
> 
>  --- Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > As far as I am aware none of the microcode updates
> > even apply to 933Mhz era PIII, just the ones the
> > BIOS ships with by default nowdays. Also the kind of
> > stuff the errata fix are obscure ultra-weird corner
> > cases people just don't hit.
> 
> Lucky me, eh?
> 
> My CPUs *do* take microcode, and they are 933 MHz...
> ;-). I upgraded from a pair of 733 MHz CPUs bought in

Some random ideas:
	- reinstall the slower, stable CPUs and burn the BIOS
		If you are a linux hacker then you kept these
		"just in case".. or else
	- get a loaner CPU and use it to burn the BIOS
		If you are a linux hacker then you have no
		life and no friends to get a loaner from but
		you do have a roomfull of computer parts...
		otherwise
	- install only one CPU, it may be more stable
	- run your CPU slower than spec, it may be more stable
		most microcode bugs are not timining sensitive
		but it is worth a try

Good luck.

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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.org/eyal/>