PC with Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs failed to restart automatically after installing Meltdown & Specter patch

Navin Shenoy, Intel's vice president, confirmed that PC systems using Skylake and Kaby Lake high-end CPUs after being patched with two serious security holes, Meltdown and Specter, also suffered from self-initiated errors. move again. He added that any user could face his sudden restart of his computer system for unknown reasons.

Previously, device errors that automatically restarted after patching Meltdown & Specter were only recorded for systems with older CPUs, Haswell and Broadwell.

Currently, Intel has not been able to give any plan to fix the problem. However, the technology firm is working on internal tests urgently to find the root cause of the problem. Intel also said that next week they will send test microcode versions to software partners to evaluate.

It is important that Intel still recommends that people update their PC patches as soon as possible. Although that may cause them to encounter some troubles regarding the degraded system performance or the problem of restarting themselves above, it is still more than hackers taking advantage of the Meltdown and Specter vulnerabilities to access Customize the memory areas protected by the operating system and exploit user information.

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