Re: Machine Check Exception ?

Denis Oliver Kropp (dok@directfb.org)
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:26:58 +0100


Quoting Dave Jones (davej@suse.de):
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:47:18AM +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > Message from syslogd@diehard at Thu Jan 24 14:44:49 2002 ...
> > diehard kernel: CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000004
> >
> > and the box is dead.
> > Can anybody please enlighten me what this means or what a possible
> > problem behind might be?
>
> Typically a hardware problem. Some older systems generate them
> spuriously though, which is why we have a "nomce" boot option.

My system here is a P3 800 Coppermine with Infineon RAM.
After removing that module it didn't occur. Linux 2.4.17.

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Best regards,
  Denis Oliver Kropp

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