Guide: intel CPU microcode update for Win7

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by ma.prezentalok, Feb 20, 2020.

  1. ma.prezentalok

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    #2 dainsleif, Sep 22, 2020
    This sounds interesting, can anyone confirm if this works?
     
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    #3 burdvista, Sep 22, 2020
    i think our friend @abbodi1406 will have more knowledge/answers,it surely would be interesting though if it did work.
     
  4. Carlos Detweiller

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    #4 Carlos Detweiller, Sep 22, 2020
    It didn't work for me. The driver starts too late in the boot process for everything to be recognized correctly (e. g. "Hardware Support for Branch Target Injection mitigation"). It would need to start very early for the updated code to be loaded.
     
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    #7 Carlos Detweiller, Sep 23, 2020
    Please check the discussion started by anonymnous on January 8th, 2018, on the Fling's discussion page. It might work for Meltdown, but I need Spectre mitigation. The driver starts too late for this, unfortunately.
     
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    #9 Carlos Detweiller, Sep 23, 2020
    Well, and here's the problem. I'm on AMD.
     
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    #10 erpsterm35, Sep 30, 2020
    then you don't need any of this as this applies only to Intel based systems and will not benefit AMD based systems
     
  11. Carlos Detweiller

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    #11 Carlos Detweiller, Oct 1, 2020
    The microcodes against Spectre do apply to AMD. Unfortunately, the driver fails for these.