Re: Machine Check Exception ?

From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 08:17:42 EST

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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.

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