On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:57:17AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Generally it indicates a CPU problem but I've see it caused by overclocking
> and poorly fitted heatsinks
I've been able to trigger a Machine check error on PPC when trying to boot
directly from OF with a COFF kernel. The system has work
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > Erm, it was bad RAM everytime it happened to me. On standard PCs, you
> > don't see those because you don't have ECC and the error is simply not
> > detected.
> So a 440bx motherboard with ECC ram is a non-standard PC?
I bet the board doesn't force you
Yep, totally. I've worked on hundreds of systems and less than 20 of the
workstations or PCs have been useing ECC. Most servers do, but not even
all of them.
Nick
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2001, Simon Richter wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 May 2001, Bene, Martin wrote
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Simon Richter wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2001, Bene, Martin wrote:
> > Definitely not caused by:
> > Bad Rams, mb-chipset.
> Erm, it was bad RAM everytime it happened to me. On standard PCs, you
> don't see those because you don't have ECC and the error is simply not
> detected
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Bene, Martin wrote:
[MCE caused by bad RAM]
> I don't think there is a way a machine check exception can be triggered by
> software - which it would have to be in order to be caused by bad RAMs.
A MCE is triggered by an ECC error - no software involved. A good trap
handler w
>> Definitely not caused by:
>> Bad Rams, mb-chipset.
>
> Erm, it was bad RAM everytime it happened to me. On standard PCs, you
> don't see those because you don't have ECC and the error is simply not
> detected.
I did have the same problem with an SMP Intel 440LX which run without any
problem si
> You get SIG11 errors when running programs(kernel compile seems to be agood
> example), you get crashing processes, you get all sorts of weird funnies but
> you really shouldn't get machine check exceptions.
>
> I don't think there is a way a machine check exception can be triggered by
> softwa
Hi Simon,
> On Mon, 7 May 2001, Bene, Martin wrote:
>
> > Definitely not caused by:
> > Bad Rams, mb-chipset.
>
> Erm, it was bad RAM everytime it happened to me. On standard PCs, you
> don't see those because you don't have ECC and the error is simply not
> detected.
Strange - definitely,
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Bene, Martin wrote:
> Definitely not caused by:
> Bad Rams, mb-chipset.
Erm, it was bad RAM everytime it happened to me. On standard PCs, you
don't see those because you don't have ECC and the error is simply not
detected.
Simon
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> After searching the archives of the list I found some similar reports
> from September and December 2000 but as far as I understood the cause of
> the error was blamed on the CPU. Is this the most probable case?
A machine check (trap 18) is signalled by the processor when it thinks it is
in an
Hi Juhan,
> After searching the archives of the list I found some similar reports
> from September and December 2000 but as far as I understood
> the cause of
> the error was blamed on the CPU. Is this the most probable case?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juhan Ernits
>
> -- /var/log/kern.log
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