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   Dgar (dgar@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 19:56:51 JST Dgar

   Posing a question for the hardware techies out there.

   If I had a 13th/14th Generation Intel Core i7/i9 and my BIOS has not been updated to include the microcode that mitigates the Vmin Shift Instability issue, and now my games are crashing with increasing frequency, what would I need to do to get up and running again?

   Asking for a friend.

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 19:56:51 JST Steve's Place

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     @dgar There is a chance that one or the other CPUs were damaged by using them without a particular update I vaguely recall reading about. If I'm right, I think both of those generations are vulnerable. If, after new BIOS and microcode (if needed), either device still crashes as described, I'd consider replacing its CPU.