Well no, they aren’t going to recall because they don’t have to. It’s fixable with a BIOS update which is a much simpler process not only for Intel, but for any affected devices.
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I bet you will start complaining when you fry your CPU though. It’s amazing that people ignore these warnings. If your oil pressure light comes on in your vehicle, do you ignore that because it’s still running?
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And this is exactly why they’ve had to add this.
The patch for the 13th & 14th gen issues have been out since September but obviously their support is still getting enough cases where that’s a root cause that they felt the need to implement this.
Letting your chip run on microcode that you know it can and likely will damage itself is insane
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I have been with AMD since my first custom build of an 800Mhz PC over 20+ years ago and have never had a problem. Today I put my own PCs together, and I still use AMD. Most recently I just rebuilt my PC with an AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 4.5Ghz processor on an AM5 board. No problems at all once I brought my motherboards bios up to date. That is the fault of the company selling the board. No fault of AMD.
You haven’t had issues yet, I had to manually go into my bios and fix things a couple months ago however the damage is already done, games fail to load because of an error that was caused by this bug. I highly recommend just doing the update.
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The two games I play on the regular at the moment, WoW and Enshrouded, were both crashing on the regular. I didn’t think much of the latter as it’s in early access, but WoW shouldn’t be having Memory Access issues every 2-30 minutes.
Thankfully updating my BIOS significantly helped.
I would strongly suggest you do it. My CPU is probably damaged, but it might not be too late for you.
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Disagree. Unless there’s a very compelling reason to do so, I never update my bios after build, nor do I update drivers unless I absolutely have to.
My real lived experience is that it’s a coin toss every time I update something, on whether it’s become substantially worse than the previous version.
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Trying to figure out how to even update it. Ive never done this before and afraid I am going to install the wrong thing. Would be nice if this stuff was a bit less convoluted…
How did you do it? Manufacturer site? Or is there an update tool?
It should be something you can download from your motherboard manufacturer’s support page. Like ASUS, MSI, etc.
Got it Ill try there. I have a prebuilt so literally no idea what I am doing in regards to stuff like this 
All 13th and 14th gen Raptor Lake based CPU are affected by a design flaw that will eventually destroy the CPU. If you haven’t updated yet, you’re going to need to RMA the CPU sooner rather than later. Intel is currently backlogged with RMA’d CPU so your replacement may take weeks.
If you update now, that will delay the eventual death of the CPU and hopefully Intel isn’t as backlogged and can exchange for replacement CPU sooner.
Alternatively you can buy 15th gen Intel of similar spec right now (if your motherboard supports it) and swap it. Then send the old one for RMA and sell the replacement CPU when it comes in.
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Yikes…be careful op, make sure the weather is good before you start 
If you bought the computer from a big box store, especially recently, you might be able to get them to do it, if it came with any sort of warranty from the store.
The process isn’t too difficult, but varies between motherboard. Some models and manufacturers have tools that make it mostly painless and possible to update from inside windows. Others require rebooting with the update loaded onto a USB stick.
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That depends on your Motherboard. Find the manufacturer, go to their support, and if you’re lucky like I was (thanks MSI), it’ll be a super easy process.
All I had to do was download a zip file, extract it to a thumb drive, reboot the system and go into the BIOS, set it to go into M-Flash Mode, select the file on said flash drive when it came back up, and it was done before I could go get a cup of coffee.
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People have suffered power outage even during good weather. Crappy power grid is usually the cause
If its a pre-built you should be able to get it from their support page, like Dell for example and you will need to input in your Service tag iD which should be a sticker some where on your computer.
typical blizzard, cutting corners in processor design and bios fixes
Thanks! The MOBO is a MSI so hopefully it won’t be diffucult, but the builder is ABS
Then you should have as easy a time with this sort of update as one could hope for. They have a no-dialog, step-by-step video showing the whole process.
I’d restart your PC, press F2 to get into the BIOS startup screen and look for updating your Bios…
That’d be the best bet… and good luck !
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