Re: MCE Error - 2.5.24 - Whats this?

From: Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 10:23:41 EST


On 26 Jun 2002, 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!
>

It looks to me like a ECC error in external tag RAM (part of the
external cache).

The CPU is fine, but since it already read bad data from the cache,
it can't be allowed to restart.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

                 Windows-2000/Professional isn't.

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