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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MCE going wild, 14 megs of this in the logs
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:02:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080331140243.GA6212@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803301657.53232.gene.heskett@gmail.com>

On Sun 2008-03-30 16:57:53, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> Mar 30 16:46:42 coyote kernel: [469249.031832] MCE: The hardware reports a non 
> fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU 0.
> Mar 30 16:46:42 coyote kernel: [469249.031838] Bank 1: d400400000000152
> Mar 30 16:46:42 coyote kernel: [469249.031841] MCE: The hardware reports a non 
> fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU 0.
> Mar 30 16:46:42 coyote kernel: [469249.031844] Bank 2: d40040000000017a
> 
> Its always the same 2 addresses reported, and every 15 seconds.  So I have the 
> non-fatal part of MCE now turned off, & 2.6.24.4 rebuilding.
> 
> I saw this once before, and a nearly round the clock run of memtest86 gave my 
> memory a clean bill.  Processor is an XP-2800, biostar mainboard with NForce2 
> chipset.  Is this possibly a known artifact of this hardware?

Thats expected. If ECC can correct the problem, memtest will pass.

I had similar problems, and was told by AMD that I had cpu with bad L2 cache.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-31 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-30 20:57 MCE going wild, 14 megs of this in the logs Gene Heskett
2008-03-30 23:49 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-03-31 14:02 ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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