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January 11th, 2018 17:00
Vostro 200, any updates for Meltdown / Spectre issues?
My old but excellent Vostro 200 Desktop is not listed among the products with updates/patches to address the Intel side-channel vulnerabilities known as Meltdown and Spectre. Anyone know if such patches exist or will be issued? THX
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cssnetworks
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January 18th, 2018 05:00
We have a number of Core-i5 Vostro 270 machines here.
I would be expecting a fix for these.
Can Dell confirm the situation and explain why they're not on the list?
Thanks
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October 4th, 2018 07:00
INTEL has decided to Not support many of the early Core Series and Core 2 series etc. There will be no microcode updates for really old cpus.
Intel says it stopped developing the Spectre variant 2 mitigations. After a comprehensive investigation of the microarchitectures and microcode capabilities for these products, Intel has determined to not release microcode updates for these products.
CPU families that won't be updated include Bloomfield, Clarksfield, Gulftown, Harpertown Xeon C0, Harpertown Xeon E0, Jasper Forest, Penryn/QC, SoFIA 3GR, Wolfdale C0 and M0, Wolfdale E0 and R0, Wolfdale Xeon X0, Wolfdale Xeon E0, Yorkfield, and Yorkfield Xeon.
April 2018 guidance says game over.
https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/04/microcode-update-guidance.pdf
There are 2018 bios updates for the 270
This package provides the BIOS Update on Dell Inspiron 660 / Vostro 270 running the following Windows Operating Systems: Windows and DOS.More details
This package provides the BIOS Update on Dell Inspiron 660 / Vostro 270 running the following Windows Operating Systems: Windows and DOS.More details
This package provides the BIOS Update on Dell Inspiron 660 / Vostro 270 running the following Windows Operating Systems: Windows and DOS.More details
This package provides the BIOS Update on Dell Inspiron 660 / Vostro 270 running the following Windows Operating Systems: Windows and DOS.More details
MH/SG MLK A rev BIOSMore details
Inspiron 660 / Vostron 270 system BIOS version A05More details
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