Re: ECC error in 2.5.64 + some patches

Chris Wedgwood
2003-03-27T17:15:49Z

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:19:41PM +0100, Dominik Kubla wrote:

> Well the internal busses and buffers of modern CPU's and in many
> cases also the on-die caches have ECC logic.

his email said "DIMMs"

> And if i should hazard a guess: "Restart IP valid" => Restarted
> Instruction Pre-Fetch resulted in a valid state of the pre-fetch
> queue.

could be ... i've not checked the AMD docs

> In Larry's case i'd remove the cpu cooler, clean everything and
> reassemble, since i would assume that there is a hot-spot on the
> die.

or simply remove the side of the case or increase air-conditioning and
see if that goes away or becomes less apparent, IME if you get these
sporadically rather than often it's 'just' overheating...

--cw