Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 2004 04:40:45 +0000 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: 2.6: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occured on CPU 0. |
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On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:16:22PM +0100, lkml@nitwit.de wrote:
> > 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. > > Well, my system did run very stable and in the meantime again does run very > stable on both, 2.4.21 and Windows XP...
Neither of which check for the presence of these errors.
> > > What the fuck is going on here?? As far as I figured out this has > > > something to do with MCE (CONFIG_X86_MCE=y, CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL=y) > > > (?). > > > > Leave it enabled, its a good thing to tell you when you have bad hardware. > > Its not a kernel problem, but a feature. > > Well, it is a good thing to tell me, but it's not a good thing to make my > system auto-reset itself before reaching the BIOS afterwards...
The non-fatal MCE code doesn't do anything like that. Any odd side-effects that you observed were very likely due to whatever caused the MCE in the first place.
Dave
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