Re: Bricked x86 CPU with software?

[Tim Mouraveiko]

> > As I mentioned before, I repeatedly and fully power-cycled the motherboard and reset BIOS
> > and etc. It made no difference. I can see that the processor was not drawing any power. The
> > software code behaved in a similar fashion on other processors, until I fixed it so that it would
> > not kill any more processors.
> > 
> 
> So you have code that killed more than one processor? Save it! We want
> a copy.
> 
> Do you have model numbers of affected CPUs?


Why would you want a copy? Last time I checked bricked CPUs do not work well, even as 
decorations.

I believe the processors were Intel Xeon series. The code would likely run on others too.