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Re:CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (2007) by tonyarkles on Sunday December 08, 2013 @08:35PM (#6872433)
I had a Celeron that had its cache go bad once. It would work "fine" in Windows, but Linux would report that the CPU was throwing some kind of exception. If you went into the BIOS and disabled the cache it would be stable, but with the cache on it would crash after a day or two. Swapped out the CPU and the machine lived a great life for a long time.
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Re:CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (2007) by zymhan on Monday December 09, 2013 @03:20AM (#6873341)
> but Linux would report that the CPU was throwing some kind of exception

Does this mean it didn't boot into Linux?

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Re:CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (2007) by tonyarkles on Monday December 09, 2013 @10:33AM (#6874721)
It booted but dmesg was very noisy!

It would actually run for a day or two, serving up a modest PHP load, before crapping out.

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