(In reply to Michel Dänzer from comment #19) > E.g. one of them updating the CPU (not GPU!) microcode at > boot, but the other one not. Nope i tried both with/without updating CPU microcode, tried also distro kernel from experimental that is linux-image-3.17-rc5-686-pae currently... in all cases corruption is still there. Well to reproduce it someone must install 32bit OS :)