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From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" <PrakashKC@gmx.de>
To: Eric <eric@cisu.net>
Cc: lkml@nitwit.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occured on CPU 0.
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:30:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FFF3998.9010209@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401091712.02802.eric@cisu.net>

Eric wrote:
> On Friday 09 January 2004 10:48 am, lkml@nitwit.de wrote:
> 
>>Hi!
>>
>>I did have some very scary issues today playing with 2.6. The system was
>>booted and ran several times today, the longtest uptime was approximately
>>about an hour.
>>
>>But then shortly after having booted 2.6 I got syslog messages:
>>
>>The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occured on CPU 0.
>>
>>I shut down the machine. After this my Athlon XP 2200+ showed up as 1050MHz
>>in BIOS an indeed the bus frequency was set to 100 instead of 133 MHz (how
>>can an OS change the BIOS?!) - nevertheless the CPU should have shown up as
>>1500MHz. I set it back to 133 MHz - which resulted in the machine did not
>>even reach the BIOS no more but was rebooting automatically prior to it. I
>>turned off the machine for some seconds - no change. I turned it off for a
>>few minutes and the BIOS showed up again - with 1050MHz. So I had to set
>>the freq back to 133 MHz a second time. I booted my 2.4.21 kernel which
>>seems to run.
> 
> 	Check your hardware CPU/MOBO/RAM. Overheating? Bad Ram? Cheap mobo?
> MCE should not be triggered under any circumstances unless it is a kernel 
> bug(RARE, I believe the MCE code is simple) or you REALLY have a hardware 
> problem. As said before, the bios is resetting your fsb to 100 as a fail-safe 
> because something bad happened.
> 	BTW, check your setup, an AMD 2200+ should run at 1.8ghz i believe. If you 
> are setting your FSB or multiplier too low, that might also be triggering a 
> problem. A quick google lists amd xp2200+ as 1800mhz

Yes, I would also say that. With my Athlon XP 1700+ (1.466 GHZ, FSB 
133MHZ) clocked at 2.2GHz (FSB200) I get MCE errors, but at 2.1GHz not, 
  even though I can't find stability issues at 2.2GHz. Nevertheless I 
run the system at 2.1GHz.

Prakash

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-09 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-09 16:48 2.6: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occured on CPU 0 lkml
2004-01-09 17:35 ` Jesper Juhl
     [not found]   ` <200401091856.16120.lkml@nitwit.de>
2004-01-09 18:10     ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09 23:12 ` Eric
2004-01-09 23:30   ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam [this message]
2004-01-10 17:16   ` lkml
2004-01-14  4:40     ` Dave Jones

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