Spectre Patches Causing Boot-loop Issues on Intel Broadwell and Haswell PCs

The cure can injure you more than the disease sometimes, and that seems to be the instance with Meltdown and Spectre. Every major hardware vendors and software developers has been running to set up their respective products and with each mean solar day the situation seems to be getting more and more complicated. With each passing day, new reports about buggy security patches are hitting online forums, with concerned users reporting that the supposed fixes are bringing more problems than they were supposed to fix.

After Microsoft revealed that the updates were causing kick-loop issues on older AMD systems (Athlon, Opteron and Turion X2 Ultra fries) running on Windows, it is now the turn of Intel to announce that "a few" of its customers are reporting higher arrangement reboot rates after installing firmware updates that were being rolled out by the company to fix the Spectre flaw. The visitor says that the issues are being experienced by both retail users and data centers.

Spectre Patches Causing Boot-Loop Issues on Intel Broadwell, Haswell PCs

Intel had recently started rolling out patches to fix the critical vulnerabilities detailed by Google's Project Zero and another contained team of researchers earlier this month, and even posted the results of a few criterion tests to prove how the Meltdown fix was affecting the performance of its processors.

The company had originally intended to finish the update rollout by the finish of this month, simply now that the process seems to accept hit a bit of a roadblock, it will be interesting to see how long it takes for the company to end rolling out the security patches in a way that doesn't create more than bug than they gear up.