Core volatility

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Mon Jun 28 12:00:10 2004

>From: "Wai-Sun Chia" <waisun.chia_at_hp.com>
>
>I have MM11-DP (16kW parity core) in my /04 which seems to have a little
>problem.
>
>Several locations which I've checked seems to be losing content (core is
> supposed to be non-volatile). I've been debugging custom bootloaders
>for the past week and it has since gone past annoying. It's like 3
>locations out of 50 that are always reverting back to 000000 after a reboot.
>
>Perhaps it's the driver logic to these 3 particular cores that are not
>functioning properly? Or is it the cores itself?
>
>
>--
>/wai-sun
>

Hi
 It is more likely that a spurious write pulse is happening
when you power off. On my computer, you need to stop the
processor first before turning it off. If I don't do this,
a few bits get corrupted.
Dwight
Received on Mon Jun 28 2004 - 12:00:10 BST