Hi! > In all my years of extensive experience writing drivers and kernels, I never > came across a situation > where you could brick an x86 CPU. Not until recently, when I was working on > debugging a piece of > code and I bricked an Intel CPU. I am not talking about an experimental > motherboard or anything > exotic or an electrical issue where the CPU got fried, but before the > software code execution the CPU > was fine and then it´s dead. There were signs that something was not right, > that the code was causing > unusual behavior, which is what I was debugging. > > Has anyone else ever experienced a bricked CPU after executing software code? > I just wanted to get > input from the community to see if anyone had had any experience like that, > since it seems rather > unusual to me.
Never seen that before. Can you try to brick another one? :-).
You may want to remove AC power and battery, wait for half an hour,
then attempt to boot it...
Pavel
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