Don’t do any “complex workloads” on your Skylake boxes until you get a BIOS update…
BIOS updates on the way to fix problem says Intel
Four days ago Intel reported that its engineering department had identified the issue which “only occurs under certain complex workload conditions… [when] the processor may hang or cause unpredictable system behaviour”. It has released a fix for the issue to hardware partners which will be distributed via BIOS updates for Skylake compatible motherboards. Now users will just have to wait for their motherboard vendors to publish BIOS updates with the Intel fix incorporated.
Full story:
http://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/89636-intel-skylake-bug-seizes-pcs-running-complex-workloads/
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