Re: 2.6: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occured on CPU 0.

[lkml]

On Saturday 10 January 2004 00:12, Eric 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...

> 	BTW, check your setup, an AMD 2200+ should run at 1.8ghz i believe. If you

Yes.

> > 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...

timo

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