[MAIN\MERGED] Intel Skylake & Kaby Lake Hyperthreading Bug

[pepper_chico]

It has been confirmed that Intel's Skylake/Kaby Lake hyper-threading can present serious issues that can be fixed by a BIOS/UEFI update that targets Intel processor errata KBL095, KBW095 or the similar one for Kaby Lake processor.

Any plans for such update to come? On Kaby Lake it seems the most safe route at the moment is to simply disable hyper-threading until ASUS provides a new BIOS that addresses this. On Skylake there's the option on ArchLinux side, for example, to install extra/intel-ucode to get microcode updates since there's a fix in revision 0xb9/0xba and later. Windows doesn't have a microcode update for this yet, afaik.

Source: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/06/msg00308.html

[Da-BOSS]

This applies on all ROG Laptops & Non ROG Laptops too.. including PC too. (THIS FIX IS ONLY FOR SPECIFIC SKYLAKE CPU) with broken Hyper-threading due to a bug on Microcode CPU.

Hello everyone... My name is THEBOSS619 aka T.B.619 or Ehab H. from Egypt.... anyway if you are not advanced or intermediate PC user... please save your self from trouble and forget it.

I would like to help for those who are using any kind of Microsoft Windows OS [example:- Win7,8,8.1,10] as this kind of microcode bug is not affecting linux only but to other OS as well so.... I would like to give a solution to skylake cpu's (ONLY FOR SPECIFIC SKYLAKE CPU) on 8 Steps.. 😉 ok lets start.

First of all...

[1-]
Check on Regedit [Registry Editor] Navigate to this --> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0] and look on [Identifier] key if it is [Intel64 Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3] or [Intel64 Family 6 Model 78 Stepping 3].. if you got one of those... you are good to continue to the next step... if not--> [Forget it!!! wait for BIOS Update from your vendor or OEM]

[2-]
Download this RWEverything utility from---> Click Here

[3-]
Install it and open the program

[4-]
Click on the icon that is called [MSR] or [CPU MSR Registers]

[5-]
Check on the [CPU ID] first section if you have one of those codes which is---> [0x406E3] or [0x506E3]... if you got one of those codes then you are good to continue. if not ---> [Forget it!!! wait for your BIOS Update from your vendor or OEM]

[6-]
Go to this link ---> Click Here to get an idea or learn how to upgrade your CPU Microcode to the lastest version. It is detailed enough there. 🙂

[7-]
After you have readed from the link that I gave it to you above you are now have an idea or know how to update your CPU Microcode to the latest version through Windows so... download this https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/26798/Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-File it's lastest Microcode for your CPU and this too https://web.archive.org/web/20160726141516/http://www.amd64.org/microcode/amd-ucode-latest.tar.bz2 use those files to update your microcode CPU.

[8-]
Done (^.^) Enjoy! :).

* I got my CPU Skylake 6700HQ on ASUS ROG GL552VX Laptop with this code 0x506E3 and Intel64 Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3 and I successfully updated my CPU Microcode to the lastest version and it works like a charm! also this update fixes many cpu bugs including CPU flaws (especially ones dealing with sleep and hibernation) and as it fixes other processor issues as well.

Anyway... thumps up this post or make it stick on the top of the list so that everyone benefit from it 🙂

This post is made purely by me by my own effort [with the help from notebookreview.com link that I provided above].
The idea for this solution came to my mind after reading this ... Click Here

I also posted this solution earilier on reddit Here

Example on my laptop ASUS ROG GL522VX Skylake 6700HQ...

[Korth]

Eleiyas@ASUS wrote:
-- ALL 3 OF THE THREADS BASED ON THIS ISSUE HAVE BEEN MERGED INTO ONE THREAD --

Please refrain from making any new threads on this topic 🙂

Just sayin', lol.

[Da-BOSS]

Korth wrote:
Just sayin', lol.

What should I do then :confused:

[Korth]

Da-BOSS wrote:
What should I do then :confused:

Dunno 😛

I offer a famous quote attributed to Ayn Rand.

I also offer a famous Ganda proverb about authority.

I am not authority here. But someone must be, lol.

[Da-BOSS]

Anyway... jokes aside... I'm offering help for those who use only windows because officially windows doesn't have an option to update your Microcode CPU except through BIOS updates so..... what I am offering here is this is the only way to update it without needing a BIOS update nor waiting from OEM or vendor to provide a BIOS update (which we all know.. they are always late like 1 year delay or never provide any BIOS Update)

[AKBAAR]

Da-BOSS wrote:
Anyway..

Hey THEBOSS! luv ur grey theme for windows, care to share where u got it from ?


this is mine

[Da-BOSS]

AKBAAR wrote:
Hey THEBOSS! luv ur grey theme for windows, care to share where u got it from ?


this is mine

This is a modded version of mine 🙂 I'm using a lite version of windows 10 pro

[Leoplate25]

Da-BOSS wrote:
Anyway... jokes aside... I'm offering help for those who use only windows because officially windows doesn't have an option to update your Microcode CPU except through BIOS updates so..... what I am offering here is this is the only way to update it without needing a BIOS update nor waiting from OEM or vendor to provide a BIOS update (which we all know.. they are always late like 1 year delay or never provide any BIOS Update)

Hi! I have an i7-6700k on an ASUS z170 Sabertooth S and i tried everything, modded BIOS with UBU (told me it is not a valid BIOS file), installing UBUNTU on a virtual machine and i could not do anything either, and all the "solutions/fixes" given in this post. Can you help me? Can you attach for me a modified BIOS that actually work or what can you do? Thanks in advance! Cheers from Argentina!

[Eleiyas]

Da-BOSS wrote:
What should I do then :confused:

Merged into main thread.

[Da-BOSS]

Eleiyas@ASUS wrote:
Merged into main thread.

Thank you.