Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754571AbYLGVzZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2008 16:55:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751991AbYLGVzM (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2008 16:55:12 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f18.google.com ([209.85.217.18]:35716 "EHLO mail-gx0-f18.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751471AbYLGVzL (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2008 16:55:11 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=UVPAfmcawaUYQRYx3aZTJP/Hq2Cg0CdR6bHoIoe6mYqI4ZRAcH+Ky2lJrHqDgE49VX ulfJVQT/XQYvQ/cjMHk2Q7BaBdXouKn+R1AV5f7yN6JShJ/SP+hwj4ITp48ssBeRUpPe rt+v3e1beIIn5jWG5txKpl6nxNRs/8z8hih+A= Message-ID: <12bfabe40812071355r65c13e52g5f3d94d3b060c939@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 22:55:10 +0100 From: "Giangiacomo Mariotti" To: "Robert Hancock" Subject: Re: [HW PROBLEM] Intel I7 MCE. Erratum or not? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <493B4242.1040202@shaw.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <12bfabe40812060421j10c93b3dg75a48aa304f633e8@mail.gmail.com> <493AE770.5030507@shaw.ca> <12bfabe40812061343j400f55d8r43571c8bd514adde@mail.gmail.com> <493AF2EA.4030601@shaw.ca> <12bfabe40812061416u1b6f800dn7261beae5ce36b2f@mail.gmail.com> <493B4242.1040202@shaw.ca> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1354 Lines: 25 On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Robert Hancock wrote: > > If it only happened once then who knows, could be a cosmic ray or > something.. but if it happens again it sounds like you likely have a bad > CPU. > This same MCE happens every time I boot the 2.6.27.8 kernel, but it never happens with kernel 2.6.26.8. It appears every time at log time [ 301.7320xx](where the x represent the scale of the approximation). In the previous log it appeared at [ 301.732037], now it appeared at [ 301.732042]. It happens just once at that moment and then never more until I reboot. No MCE gets logged with kernel 2.6.26.8 nor with Windows Vista 32bit, not even under very heavy load on memory and cpu(like 3d games or 3d mark vintage). Is this really an hardware problem? Why does it get logged only on kernel 2.6.27.8 at that exact moment? Now I'm gonna compile kernel 2.6.28-rc7 and see if there it happens too. Any suggestion? It would be appreciated, because, depending on the final result, I may be forced to change the hardware(It's still guaranteed, but it'd mean some months without a pc). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/