• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    I had a problem like this with a CPU.

    Fresh from the box OEM hardware, either Dell or HP… I forget. A laptop system.

    We couldn’t get the damn thing to do windows updates, which was part of our initial prep for the system. It kept crashing, no useful info from logs.

    I booted off of an Ubuntu live image I had on a USB. Turns out, one of the CPU cores on die was faulty. If I reduced the CPU cores visible to the system to one, it worked fine. All enabled? Crash.

    A call to support and a quick service visit sorted out the system, but Microsoft’s error reporting was useless at diagnosing the issue.