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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:17:42 +0100
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Machine Check Exception ?
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:47:18AM +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
 > Message from syslogd@diehard at Thu Jan 24 14:44:49 2002 ...
 > diehard kernel: CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000004
 > 
 > and the box is dead.
 > Can anybody please enlighten me what this means or what a possible
 > problem behind might be?

 Typically a hardware problem. Some older systems generate them
 spuriously though, which is why we have a "nomce" boot option.

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