Intel's firmware, which is delivered by hardware OEMs, is causing
higher system reboots on systems with older Broadwell and Haswell CPUs.
Not exact matches
Update: On January 22, Intel announced that users should stop deploying the initial UEFI firmware updates due to «
higher than expected
reboots and other unpredictable
system behavior».
«Intel has reported issues with recently released microcode meant to address Spectre Variant 2 (CVE 2017 - 5715 Branch Target Injection)-- specifically Intel noted that this microcode can cause «
higher than expected
reboots and other unpredictable
system behavior» and then noted that situations like this may result in «data loss or corruption.»
It addressed five generations of Intel processors, only customers began reporting an unusually
high number of
system reboots after applying the update.