The 3.12.1 kernel has fixed it for me:

platform microcode: firmware: direct-loading firmware intel-ucode/06-17-0a
[    9.270310] microcode: CPU0 sig=0x1067a, pf=0x80, revision=0xa07
[    9.272008] microcode: CPU0 updated to revision 0xa0b, date = 2010-09-28
[    9.276940] microcode: CPU1 sig=0x1067a, pf=0x80, revision=0xa07
[    9.276989] platform microcode: firmware: direct-loading firmware intel-ucode/06-17-0a
[    9.277015] microcode: CPU1 sig=0x1067a, pf=0x80, revision=0xa07
[    9.280311] microcode: CPU1 updated to revision 0xa0b, date = 2010-09-28
[    9.283387] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba


Thanks for all the help!

Hi everyone:

I am managing to find my way around everything pretty well - even my broadcom wi-fi works! - but I am seeing this in dmesg:

platform microcode: firmware: agent aborted loading intel-ucode/06-17-0a (not found?)


I am using the following kernel

Linux version 3.11-2-amd64
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11-2-amd64


This is a Dell Inc. Inspiron 1545 - Dual core processor
Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU       
T4300  @ 2.10GHz
microcode : 0xa07
cpu MHz : 1200.000
cache size : 1024 KB
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc
arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2
ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm xsave lahf_lm dtherm
bogomips : 4189.71
clflush size : 64


Any ideas on how to resolve this?

Thanks in advance,
Serge

Thanks for the help guys!
I appreciate the prompt response...

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