Re: Machine Check Exception

From: Jan-Benedict Glaw (jbglaw@lug-owl.de)
Date: Sun Dec 15 2002 - 15:39:20 EST


On Sun, 2002-12-15 21:22:27 +0100, Felix von Leitner <felix-kernel@fefe.de>
wrote in message <20021215202227.GA7375@codeblau.de>:
> As soon as I start oggenc on my 2.5 kernel, I get this message:
>
> CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000004
> Bank 0: f60600000000135 at 000000001ea46db0
> Kernel panic: CPU context corrupt
>
> This vc then hangs, but I could log in and write down the message on
> another vc. Is this a hardware error? Should I replace my CPU? My
> memory? Is my machine overheating? I have had several strange and
> unexplained segfaults and reboots under 2.4 recently.

Probably you're suffering from bad RAM. Please create a memtest86 boot
floppy and try it in your own... Segfaults and reboots mostly are bad
CPU fans or bad RAM:-p

MfG, JBG

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