> -----Original Message----- > From: John V. Pope [mailto:jpope_rhn@xxxxxxxxx] > > Subject: [OT] Kernel Panic - What's your diagnosis > > Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:35:02 +0800 > > From: "Ow Mun Heng" <ow.mun.heng@xxxxxxx> > > 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)
