Thanks, I'll check it out. On 27 Jun 2017 16:32, "Henrique de Moraes Holschuh" <h...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2017, Armin Avdic wrote: > > Hello, I saw your article on corrupted data and I have reason to believe > > that the bad code goes as far back to Intel Pentium D processors, in my > > The Intel Pentium D is a very old processor, and its hyper-threading is > very different from the recent processors. It cannot be the same > defect. > > > investigation I have seen that when hyperthreading is disabled the cpu > acts > > ok no corrupted data or corrupted downloads however when enabled the > > corrupted data starts showing up and changing md5 completely. > > We do ship some public microcode updates for several Pentium D > processors, but they're really old updates. There is no guarantee that > they will fix your issue. > > Note that it could be a problem elsewhere. Those are old processors, in > old motherboards, with old system components (memory, power supplies, > etc). And the current software (kernel, etc) is not often tested on > them anymore, so it could be a software problem, too. > > If you want to try, please install intel-microcode as described in > https://wiki.debian.org/Microcode > > Pentium D specification updates ("defect list"): > https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/processors/ > desktop-processors/000007016.html > http://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/ > processors/pentiumd/sb/310307.pdf > http://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/ > processors/pentiumd/sb/306832.pdf > > -- > Henrique Holschuh >
