Re: Deadlocks and Machine Check Exception on Athlon64

From: Tom Vier
Date: Thu Feb 19 2004 - 20:17:05 EST


On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:31:50PM +0100, Ronny V. Vindenes wrote:
> CPU 0: Machine Check Exception : 0000000000000004
> Bank 4: b200000000070f0f
> kernel panic: CPU context corrupt
> In interrupt handler - not syncing

i've gotten the same machine check a couple times. it only happened the
first few days i had my machine. i updated to the latest tyan bios which
fixes some bugs. i haven't had it happen since.

if i'm reading it right (which is hard on this small screen, slow cpu
laptop), page 153 of the opteron kernel/bios guide says this is an ecc data
cache exception (which is always fatal/nonrecoverable). this sounds like
errata 86, which is fixed in the tyan bios update i installed.

does msi say their 2.1 bios fixes #86?

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