Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:56:08 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [HW PROBLEM] Intel I7 MCE. Erratum or not? |
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> IIRC, this error is not what happen on the time [301.7320xx] during > boot, but happen before the boot. Since the record says "Processor > context corrupt," MCE handler should call panic(or do something stop > the system) if the context actually corrupted during the boot.
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.
> > In other words, it seems that 1) the error was recorded at last time > when your machine crashed unexpectedly(by cosmic-ray etc.) and not cleared > yet, or 2) your machine is doing something wrong in every reset/poweroff.
When it happens consistently at each boot then yes it's likely something leaking from the BIOS initialization sequence. Perhaps try a BIOS update?
-Andi
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