[OT] Kernel Panic - What's your diagnosis

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John V. Pope [mailto:jpope_rhn at popes.net]
> > Subject: [OT] Kernel Panic - What's your diagnosis

> > Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:35:02 +0800
> > From: "Ow Mun Heng" <ow.mun.heng at wdc.com>
> > On The system console, this is what is written
> >
> > CPU0 : Machine Check Exception 000000000000004
> > Bank3 : b200000000080a01
> > Kernel Panic : CPU Context Currupt
> > in Interrupt handler_not syncing
> >
> I have direct experience with that exact problem.  The CPU is 
> doing an mce
> due to a bus error.  It also happened to one of my systems 
> with RH8 (and RH9
> since I upgraded to try to fix it).
> 
> I took weeks to finally find the actual problem (it was very 
> intermittent)
> but the long and short of it was a bad DIMM chip.  To find 
> the problem I
> created a boot floppy with memtest86 on it and it the bad RAM 
> was detected
> on the first
> pass.
> 


This is _good_ news.. I will try it out..

Many Thanks for the info..

Err.. What exactly is MCE (machine Check exception).
Hmm.. perhaps Google can help.
(That'll have to wait since I have no I-net conn till I get home)