Re: MCE: The hardware reports... (AMD Duron)

Axel Siebenwirth
2003-10-07T20:19:30Z

Hi Juliusz!

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

> Under both 2.6.0test4 and test6, I'm fairly regularly getting the
> following at boot time:
>
> MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU 0.
> Bank 0: e603800000000175
>
> The machine is a Compaq Presario 711, with a 950MHz Mobile Duron
> (family 6 model 7 stepping 1 according to /proc/cpuinfo).
>
> The Intel docs seem to imply that this is something memory-related, I
> couldn't find the relevant AMD docs.
>
> Would somebody be so kind as to explain what the above means?

In the sources it says:
/* AMD K7 machine check is Intel like */

So I guess the information you find about Intel Machine Check Exceptions
concerning your MCE also applies to AMDs.

Greetings,
Axel

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