• Flogging the dead KB 936357 horse

    Posted on November 2, 2007 at 19:02 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Microsoft has re-released, once again, its “microcode reliability update” patch known as KB 936357. I talked about the poorly documented, apparently ill-conceived, and laughably implemented patch more than a month ago.

    I strongly recommend that you NOT apply the patch if it’s offered to you. Instead, figure out how to flash your BIOS, and solve the problem the old-fashioned way.

    Thanks to EP, who noticed that the Knowledge Base article 936357 has just been updated to version 4.3. For reasons I don’t understand, several sites are recommending that folks install the patch.

    It’s a load of garbage. Don’t put it on your machine.

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