Intel Motherboards : Intel's Atom C2000 chips are bricking products

Author: Piru
Subject: Intel's Atom C2000 chips are bricking products
Posted: 07 Feb 2017 at 9:52pm

Intel Atom C2000 chips have a flaw that will lead to total bricking of the system.

The issue has been covered by for example The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/06/cisco_intel_decline_to_link_product_warning_to_faulty_chip/

The problem is confirmed by this Intel Errata document:
https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/atom-c2000-family-spec-update.pdf

As far as I can tell ASRock has 3 models that are potentially affected:

http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2550D4I#Specifications                                             
http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2750D4I#Specifications                                             
http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=1U12LW-C2750#Specifications

Some questions to ASRock:

- Are ASRock boards affected by this issue?
- If ASRock boards are affected, what will ASRock do to remedy this situation? Will the affected boards be RMAd?


Edited by Piru - 1 hour 38 minutes ago at 10:01pm