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On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 07:04:30AM -0400, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote:

[skip]

>     Unless I am completely mistaken, machine checks are not cause by
> softwded are or programming errors, they are cause by hardware problems,

You can trivially trigger MachineChecks without any hardware problems 
- just map some non-existent physical address and try to access it.

-- 
Eugene