Melerix
I am wondering if problems with these AMD "A" series processors ( example knight1fox3 ) should be addresses in a different thread. They are something of a different animal as they have an internal graphics adapter.
From wikipedia........
Steamroller architecture (2014): Kaveri
Main article: Steamroller (microarchitecture)
- Steamroller-based CPU with 2–4 cores[62]
- Graphics Core Next 2nd Gen-based GPU with 192–512 shader processors[63]
- 15–95 W thermal design power[62][63]
- Fastest mobile processor of this series: AMD FX-7600P (35 W)
- Fastest desktop processor of this series: AMD A10-7850K (95 W)
- Socket FM2+ and Socket FP3[62]
- Target segment desktop and mobile
- Heterogeneous System Architecture-enabled zero-copying through pointer passing
The third generation of the platform, codenamed Kaveri, was partly released on January 14, 2014.[64] Kaveri contains up to four Steamroller CPU cores clocked to 3.9 GHz with a turbo mode of 4.1 GHz, up to a 512-core Graphics Core Next GPU, two decode units per module instead of one (which allows each core to decode four instructions per cycle instead of two), AMD TrueAudio,[65] Mantle API,[66] an on-chip ARM Cortex-A5 MPCore,[67] and will release with a new socket, FM2+.[68] Ian Cutress and Rahul Garg of Anandtech asserted that Kaveri represented the unified system-on-a-chip realisation of AMD's acquisition of ATI. The performance of the 45 W A8-7600 Kaveri APU was found to be similar to that of the 100 W Richland part, leading to the claim that AMD made significant improvements in on-die graphics performance per watt;[62] however, CPU performance was found to lag behind similarly-specified Intel processors, a lag that was unlikely to be resolved in the Bulldozer family APUs.[62] The A8-7600 component was delayed from a Q1 launch to an H1 launch because the Steamroller architecture components were allegedly did not scale well at higher clock speeds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Accelerated_Processing_Unit
Although "fx" series vintage, I wonder if these "A" series CPUs might have slipped through a crack.