Re: 2.3.21 APIC error interrupts

Harley Privitera (jhp@pobox.com)
Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:41:24 -0400


I have the following setup:

linux 2.3.22-1
ABIT BP6
2 C333A overclocked to 550
128MB

I see the same APIC messages; when I brought the CPU's down to 333MHz,
the messages stopped.

I haven't noticed any problems as far as sig 11's, IDE data
corruption, etc.. Have I just been lucky?

/harley

> From: Eric Dittman <dittman@dittman.net>
> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 02:25:20 -0500 (CDT)
> Subject: Re: 2.3.21 APIC error interrupts
>
> >On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Eric Dittman wrote:
> >
> >> With 2.3.21 I keep getting the following messages:
> >>
> >> Oct 12 10:48:58 narnia kernel: APIC error interrupt on CPU#0, should never happen.
> >> Oct 12 10:48:58 narnia kernel: ... APIC ESR0: 00000004
> >> Oct 12 10:48:58 narnia kernel: ... APIC ESR1: 00000002
> >
> >Your board probably works under marginal conditions. Bits #0 and #1 in ESR mean APIC bus
> >transmit/receive checksum errors and bits #2 and #3 mean transmit/receive accept errors. All of these
> >usually indicate serious problems with hardware.
>
> Is anyone else getting these with an Abit BP6? Or is my BP6 faulty?
>
> >> I get a whole lot more of these every so often. I didn't see these on
> >> earlier versions of 2.3.xx (but I skipped from 2.3.18ac10 to 2.3.21).
> >
> >Logging of these errors was only introduced in 2.3.20.
>
> That would explain not seeing them before.
> --
> Eric Dittman
> dittman@dittman.net

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