Re: What is MCE?

[Joshua Kwan]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:33:24AM +0900, Norman Diamond wrote:
> Sometimes:
> MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU
> 0.
> Bank 3: a200000000080a01
> 
> Obviously this isn't a Linux error, Linux is being kind enough to report a
> hardware error to me, but I don't know how to interpret these error flags.
> I don't even know what MCE is but whoever developed it for Linux surely must
> know.  Please, how can I find out what this is?

MCE stands for Machine Check Exception.

This mailing list reply provides a pretty good explanation of it:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/debian-user-200009/msg01677.html

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Joshua Kwan

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