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Posted: 2/7/2017 10:47:03 AM EDT
Apparently there are LPC bus clock failures occurring causing systems not to boot.  These are Avoton/Rangeley chips found in a bunch of networking gear, and some popular Supermicro boards used to build pfsense boxes.

The Intel document with the Errata is here.

AVR54.     System May Experience Inability to Boot or May Cease Operation
Problem:     The SoC LPC_CLKOUT0 and/or LPC_CLKOUT1 signals (Low Pin Count bus clock outputs) may stop functioning.
Implication:     If the LPC clock(s) stop functioning the system will no longer be able to boot.
Workaround:     A platform level change has been identified and may be implemented as a workaround for this erratum.
Status:     For the steppings affected, see Table 1, “Errata Summary Table” on page 9.
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There is some on going discussion in the pfsense reddit here.
Link Posted: 2/7/2017 11:03:47 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 2/7/2017 11:16:54 AM EDT
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Added failure quote above.

Not sure what the end result will be here, but I'm looking at a couple of boards from Congatec to replace mine.

They may be available sometime in April this year.  I'm looking at either the PA-5 or the IA-5 with the Pentium N4200.
Link Posted: 2/7/2017 11:27:17 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 2/7/2017 11:27:52 AM EDT
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I have a supermicro server and two NAS's that might be affected. Thanks for the heads up.
Link Posted: 2/7/2017 11:58:33 AM EDT
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There's a shitpile of Cisco gear impacted too, like a lot of the ISR G3's and ASAs :-(

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/web/clock-signal.html
Link Posted: 2/7/2017 12:36:49 PM EDT
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Glad I went with AMD AM1-based low power systems
Link Posted: 2/7/2017 5:08:30 PM EDT
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There's a shitpile of Cisco gear impacted too, like a lot of the ISR G3's and ASAs :-(

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/web/clock-signal.html
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Can't wait to swap out all the 5506s we have :/
Link Posted: 2/7/2017 11:01:45 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 2/7/2017 11:30:37 PM EDT
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I have a supermicro box with one
Link Posted: 2/7/2017 11:59:36 PM EDT
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This is going to be interesting.

I have an esxi box running a Supermicro A1SRM-2758F and a FreeNAS box running an ASRack C2550.  It looks like Supermicro might be stepping up to the plate, but I haven't seen anything from ASRack.

I also get to re-deploy a shit ton of Cisco IR809 cellular routers that are caught up in all of this mess.  The amount of branch-based devices are going to cost companies a lot of labor even with the RMA procedure that Cisco has put in place.
Link Posted: 2/8/2017 9:09:16 AM EDT
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Pfsense replied back with an official announcement

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Thanks for the update.
Link Posted: 2/8/2017 6:55:57 PM EDT
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I just saw this on The Register. 

Luckily I have no fancy gear acquired in the last two years... wait one... Crap. 

Our QNAP TS-469L has an Atom D2700 in it. And it did fall over unexpectedly last week.

Off to see if this is part of the C2xxx family or if the 'D' makes it immune.

ETA---------------------

I never expected that I would be happy that my gear is old. It looks like the D and C 2000 appear to be somewhat different. 32nm vs 22nm. 

Damn... I was THIS close to justifying a new box. 
Link Posted: 2/8/2017 7:12:04 PM EDT
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FYI, a different Article at The Register listed out the effected models.

C2308, C2338, C2350, C2358, C2508, C2518, C2530, C2538, C2550, C2558, C2718, C2730, C2738, C2750, and C2758.

Damn.... "People with Synology DS1815+ storage boxes have been reporting complete hardware failures; the DS1815+ is powered by an Intel Atom C2538."
Link Posted: 2/8/2017 11:32:01 PM EDT
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I got a reply that Supermicro is accepting RMAs through vendors.  as soon as I can repurpose something to replace my box, I'll get my A1SRI-2558F-O board done.
Link Posted: 2/9/2017 11:41:01 AM EDT
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Looks like my cheap ass lucked out I had my finger on to buy a c2750 for my NAS build and used a N3700 instead. I thought it was odd when I was looking into the asrock boards had a lot of reviews for RMA's. I guess when I upgrade I'll look harder at Xeon-D.
Link Posted: 2/9/2017 4:32:44 PM EDT
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Looks like my cheap ass lucked out I had my finger on to buy a c2750 for my NAS build and used a N3700 instead. I thought it was odd when I was looking into the asrock boards had a lot of reviews for RMA's. I guess when I upgrade I'll look harder at Xeon-D.
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From what I've read about it, most suppliers have been shipping out units that should be fixed since late January.


The N3700 should be pretty good, too.
Link Posted: 3/6/2017 12:35:26 PM EDT
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Netgear has officially admitted that four products may "experience higher-than-normal hardware failure rate", the RN3130, RN3138, WC7500, and WC7600v2.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/03/netgear_recalling_hardware_with_bad_intel_atoms/
Link Posted: 3/19/2017 12:02:17 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/13/2017 1:15:30 AM EDT
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Looks like Intel decided to revise the chipset and is introducing a C0 stepping.

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-atom-c2000-c0-stepping-fixing-the-avr54-bug/
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