Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Bene, Martin" <> | Subject | RE: what causes Machine Check exception? revisited (2.2.18) | Date | Mon, 7 May 2001 15:33:54 +0200 |
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Hi Simon,
> On Mon, 7 May 2001, Bene, Martin wrote: > > > Definitely not caused by: > > Bad Rams, mb-chipset. > > Erm, it was bad RAM everytime it happened to me. On standard PCs, you > don't see those because you don't have ECC and the error is simply not > detected.
Strange - definitely, strange. Of course you're correct about memory errors going undetected on standard PC hardware, and usually these undetected errors lead to other failures later on:
You get SIG11 errors when running programs(kernel compile seems to be agood example), you get crashing processes, you get all sorts of weird funnies but you really shouldn't get machine check exceptions.
I don't think there is a way a machine check exception can be triggered by software - which it would have to be in order to be caused by bad RAMs.
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