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Re:Intel’s Atom C2000 chips are bricking products, and it’s ... by wang_li on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @01:03AM (#13587433)
>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.

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Re:Intel’s Atom C2000 chips are bricking products, and it’s ... by AstralStorm on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @03:36AM (#13588010)
Random crashes are often sign of memory corruption. Sometimes broken power supply or major interference. Not of such CPU problems.
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Re:Intel’s Atom C2000 chips are bricking products, and it’s ... by nowaynohow on Monday February 20, 2017 @02:03PM (#13689932)
Meh, for C2000, it can be also a sign of outdated firmware.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.
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