Microcode Failed to Load Filed AMD

[TurtleKing]

I keep seeing this message on every reboot or startup of Kubuntu. I Googled the error and got several suggested fix, but most are pertaining to other distributions. Will these fix work for Kubuntu as well?

Error: microcode failed to load file amd-ucode/microcode_amd fam15h.bin

Suggested Fix: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=144699

Kubuntu 12.10 64bit
Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
Processor: AMD FX Quad Core (can't remember specific name)

[OneLine]

Do you have the amd64-microcode installed ?

The amd64-microcode /4/.

:~$ apt-cache show amd64-microcode

Description: Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
This package contains microcode patches for all AMD AMD64
processors. AMD releases microcode patches to correct
processor behavior as documented in the respective processor
revision guides.
.
For Intel processors, please refer to the intel-microcode package.
Homepage: http://www.amd64.org/support/microcode.html

Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug

There has been reports of the problems with the Raring (Ubuntu 13.04) /1/ - and with the Precise (Ubuntu 12.04) /3/. Sometimes the amd64-microcode solves the problem /2/.


Links

1. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2085789
2. http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=131
3. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1945481
4. http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?ke...ll&section=all

[TurtleKing]

Not sure but it appears to be installed according to terminal:

kubuntu@computer:~$ apt-cache show amd64-microcode
Package: amd64-microcode
Priority: extra
Section: multiverse/admin
Installed-Size: 95
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.20120910-1
Filename: pool/multiverse/a/amd64-microcode/amd64-microcode_1.20120910-1_amd64.deb
Size: 27950
MD5sum: ea292b40eec02d2d3cefedc71b6193ee
SHA1: 9cfa6f568ce76ad180641f67d9644539cef534e8
SHA256: b849144310117c7585b78ab76056e9c7d9c8a23e5aafad5b42bdf108b328bd52
Description-en: Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
 This package contains microcode patches for all AMD AMD64
 processors.  AMD releases microcode patches to correct
 processor behavior as documented in the respective processor
 revision guides.
 .
 For Intel processors, please refer to the intel-microcode package.
Homepage: http://www.amd64.org/support/microcode.html
Description-md5: 093f190e183c7cfeca05b52ecd2116e3
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

kubuntu@computer:~$

[vinnywright]

that dose not show whether it's installed or not ,,,,,,just that it is available

try this

vinny@vinny-HP-G62:~$ dpkg --status amd64-microcode
dpkg-query: package 'amd64-microcode' is not installed and no information is available

or open muon and do a search for amd , it will be at the top of the list

VINNY

[TurtleKing]

kubuntu@computer:~$ dpkg --status amd64-microcode
dpkg-query: package 'amd64-microcode' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Kubuntu@computer:~$

So do I go about installing it? (My terminal commands knowledge is a little less than average)

[Snowhog]

In the console type:

sudo apt-get update

(to refresh the package cache)
Then:

sudo apt-get install amd64-microcode

[TurtleKing]

Thank you.