Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: AMD processor microcode security update

2016-03-24 Thread Jason Fergus
That's very interesting.  Hopefully that's not the reason my AMD system would randomly crash on me, I thought I had fixed it with some better cooling, and one of my DIMMs had gone bad.  I no longer have the system though. On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 11:52 -0700, Kalnozols, Andris wrote: > FYI in case we

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: AMD processor microcode security update

2016-03-23 Thread Kalnozols, Andris
Profuse apologies for the group reply; more proof that multi-tasking is overrated... On 3/23/2016 11:52 AM, Kalnozols, Andris wrote: > FYI in case we have any of these AMD microprocessors... >

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: AMD processor microcode security update

2016-03-23 Thread Kalnozols, Andris
FYI in case we have any of these AMD microprocessors... On 3/23/2016 11:15 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS ONLY RELEVANT TO SYSTEMS THAT HAVE AMD PILEDRIVER > MICROPROCESSORS (AMD-FX, and AMD Opteron 3300 / 4300 / 6300). > > AMD has released a microcode update that

ANNOUNCEMENT: AMD processor microcode security update

2016-03-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS ONLY RELEVANT TO SYSTEMS THAT HAVE AMD PILEDRIVER MICROPROCESSORS (AMD-FX, and AMD Opteron 3300 / 4300 / 6300). AMD has released a microcode update that fixes a severe fault (also known as "erratum") on AMD Piledriver processors. This erratum can cause dangerous system instab