Re: MCE Error - 2.5.24 - Whats this?

[Matti Aarnio]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:57:37AM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:
> I don't understand that decoded result ;) 
> 
> Is it a phony result or is there a real problem with the CPU itself?
> It's brand new!

   Bad ECC data.  Possibly you don't have ECC capable memory in the system
   at all, but your BIOS has been set up to expect it.    Possibly the
   new processor is marginal, possibly the new board is marginal...

> On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 03:50, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:20:57AM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:
> > > I got this message this evening from the syslog:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occured on
> > > CPU 0.
> > > 
> > > Bank 0: 9409c00000000136
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Is this something I should be worried about?
> > > 
> > > Included is the standard dmesg.
> > 
> > Dave Jones had a small parser for these codes:
> > http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/cruft/parsemce.c
> > 
> > And as it seems the parser lacks a bit of information to completely
> > decode the message:
> > 
> > ~ ./parsemce
> > Status: (4) Machine Check in progress.
> > Restart IP invalid.
> > parsebank(0): 9409c00000000136 @ 0
> >         External tag parity error
> >         Uncorrectable ECC error
> >         CPU state corrupt. Restart not possible
> >         MISC register information valid
> >         Error not corrected.
> >         Error overflow
> >         Memory heirarchy error
> >         Request: Generic error
> >         Transaction type : Data
> >         Memory/IO : I/O
> > 
> > > Linux version 2.5.24 (root@unknown) (gcc version 3.1) #1 Sat Jun 22 14:58:48 EDT 2002
> > ...
> > 
> > -alex
> > 
> -- 
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