Re: [HW PROBLEM] Intel I7 MCE. Erratum or not?

[Hidetoshi Seto]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> The weird thing is that 301 seconds is quite a long delay for that.
> It should happen  relatively quickly at boot as the CPUs are initialized.

Indeed.

> When it happens consistently at each boot then yes it's likely something
> leaking from the BIOS initialization sequence. Perhaps try a BIOS update?

I'm not sure but is it make sense if SMI causes an error and dropped MCE
exception without clearing error record?

Thanks,
H.Seto

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