Re: Bricked x86 CPU with software?

[Nikolay Borisov]

On  4.01.2018 02:47, Tim Mouraveiko wrote:
> 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 itÂs 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.
> 
> Tim
> 

"Code talks, bullshit walks". Unless you share the code I don't think
anyone has any reason to believe anything you said.