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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:21:55 +1000
From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel
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Thank you Dan:
I'll look into this. Time to tear the old box apart again.
Thank you again.
Alan
On 9/4/07, Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:51:38 +1000
> "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think your solution is the better one, though.
> >
> > I did follow the instructions of the boot messages and installed an
> > mce log translation utility, but I didn't make sense of what to do
> > with it.
>
> The thing is, you are only masking symptoms. There may be something
> wrong, and perhaps you could save a lot of work later by fixing a
> problem before it turns catastrophic.
>
> from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Check_Exception
>
> A Machine Check Exception, also called MCE, is a computer hardware
> error which occurs when a computer's central processing unit detects an
> unrecoverable hardware problem.
>
> Normal causes for MCE errors are overheating and/or incorrect hardware
> installation. Overheating can cause electrons to become more animated
> and thus escape from the silicon tracks, resulting in corrupted data.
> Some specific manually induced causes could be:
>
> Overclocking (naturally increases heat output)
>
> Poorly fitted heatsink/computer fans (the same problem can happen with
> excessive dust in the CPU fan)
>
> Computer software can also cause errors in this way (normally by
> corrupting data they are reading or writing). For example:
>
> -Software performing read or write operations to non-existent memory
> regions which leads to confusion for the processor and/or the system
> bus.
>
> 3rd party programs
>
> mcelog
> mcelog is a Linux program to decode MCE's on x86-64 processors
>
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
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Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan lngndvs@gmail.com
"An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one
non-existent."
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Thank you Dan:<br><br>I'll look into this. Time to tear the old box apart again. <br><br>Thank you again.<br><br>Alan<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dan Farrell</b> <<a href="mailto:dan@spore.ath.cx">
dan@spore.ath.cx</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:51:38 +1000<br>"Alan E. Davis" <
<a href="mailto:lngndvs@gmail.com">lngndvs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> I think your solution is the better one, though.<br>><br>> I did follow the instructions of the boot messages and installed an<br>> mce log translation utility, but I didn't make sense of what to do
<br>> with it.<br><br>The thing is, you are only masking symptoms. There may be something<br>wrong, and perhaps you could save a lot of work later by fixing a<br>problem before it turns catastrophic.<br><br>from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Check_Exception">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Check_Exception</a><br><br>A Machine Check Exception, also called MCE, is a computer hardware<br>error which occurs when a computer's central processing unit detects an<br>unrecoverable hardware problem.
<br><br>Normal causes for MCE errors are overheating and/or incorrect hardware<br>installation. Overheating can cause electrons to become more animated<br>and thus escape from the silicon tracks, resulting in corrupted data.
<br>Some specific manually induced causes could be:<br><br>Overclocking (naturally increases heat output)<br><br>Poorly fitted heatsink/computer fans (the same problem can happen with<br>excessive dust in the CPU fan)<br>
<br>Computer software can also cause errors in this way (normally by<br>corrupting data they are reading or writing). For example:<br><br>-Software performing read or write operations to non-existent memory<br>regions which leads to confusion for the processor and/or the system
<br>bus.<br><br>3rd party programs<br><br>mcelog<br> mcelog is a Linux program to decode MCE's on x86-64 processors<br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org">gentoo-user@gentoo.org</a> mailing list<br><br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan <a href="mailto:lngndvs@gmail.com">lngndvs@gmail.com</a> <br><br>"An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent."
<br> ---Lord Raleigh (aka John William Strutt), or else his son,
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