Re:Intel’s Atom C2000 chips are bricking products, and it’s ...
by wang_li on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @01:03AM
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>That explains the issues with the C2000 family. Various Linux distros crash randomly, and not just crash sometimes really just stop opening applications or stop processing e.g. apt-get.
No it doesn't. Did you read the errata? It completely stops. There's no weirdness. It's just dead.
Re:Intel’s Atom C2000 chips are bricking products, and it’s ...
by AstralStorm on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @03:36AM
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Random crashes are often sign of memory corruption. Sometimes broken power supply or major interference. Not of such CPU problems.
Re:Intel’s Atom C2000 chips are bricking products, and it’s ...
by nowaynohow on Monday February 20, 2017 @02:03PM
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Meh, for C2000, it can be also a sign of outdated firmware. We don't get microcode updates for SoCs in the general distribution: either your system vendor does a good job of keeping up with firmware updates, or you are screwed.
The BIOS is a piece of shit. It's buggy, the legacy-BIOS support is unstable, the Win7-EFI and Win8-EFI modes are not good either. I patched a Win7 DVD with Win8 files, so that I could install Win7. Now Win7 runs great and stable - but only after I installed various Intel drivers that fixed the hardware flaws.
I am seriously looking forward to the upcoming new AMD CPU - Intel dod barely anything the last five years, a 2011 highend CPU is almost as fast as Intel 2017 flagship, and costed a lot less back then, had less DRM or other shit that is broken. Intel needs a proper competitor, so a comeback of AMD on the one side, and Apple notebooks with ARM CPU are very welcome to stop Intel from siting on their quasi monopoly chair.