RE: Athlon64 + Nforce4 MCE panic

[Allen Martin]

> 1x Asrock NF4G-SATA2 motherboard 
> (http://www.asrock.com/product/939NF4G-SATA2.htm)
> 1x Athlon64 "Venice" 3500+ with a huge Arctic cooler
> 1x Corsair kit of 2 matched 512MB DDR400 modules
> 1x Seagate 160GB SATA drive
> 1x well ventilated Chieftec rackmount chassis w/PSU

You don't have any PATA devices at all?  SATA is a lot more resilient to
this type of problem.

> So I have a reason to believe that this could be a chipset specific
> problem which not only affects me but quite a number of NF4 users,
> most of which (using Windo$$$) will probably never know why their
> system suddenly hung after some weeks or months of use...

Windows will generate a bugcheck on an MCA exception just like Linux.
We have really detailed statistics on Windows bugchecks due to OCA, so I
know this is not a widespread issue at least on Windows.


> Or maybe just a neutrino hit to the CPU?
> What do you think?

The stack trace will almost always tell you exactly what device timed
out the PIO, you should start there.
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