[19:51] <dijuremo> Alright, so I have another DELL workstation that totally fails to work properly after BIOS update. This is an Ubuntu 16.04 install, was updated to latest packages and installed linux-generic-hwe-16.04 kernel. I used the nvidia-384.111 driver and the latest BIOS A16. The machine randomly hangs. I tried adding nospectre_v2 as a boot option but still seems to work for a bit, but if I log off, which resets the X system, i.e. lightdm seems to r
[19:53] <dijuremo> This is a DELL T3610. In order to get everything working again, I had to downgrade from BIOS A16 (released march of this year) to BIOS A14, released May 2017. With the old bios and absolutely no additional kernel options, the computer is stable.
[19:53] <dijuremo> The system has two Quadro K2000 video cards installed.
[20:10] <tyhicks> dijuremo: I'm curious if you've tried to use the intel-microcode packages from https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security-proposed/+archive/ubuntu/ppa ?
[20:11] <tyhicks> dijuremo: they contain updated microcode which could be the same version that's delivered in your BIOS update but there could be differences
[20:11] <tyhicks> dijuremo: you'd need to install the amd64 deb and then reboot
[20:12] <tyhicks> dijuremo: assuming that you're running xenial, you can find the deb here: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security-proposed/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+build/14453957