[plug] "MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident" ?

[James Devenish]

In message <20030820163309.GB10560 at erdos.home>
on Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:33:09AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Message from syslogd at erdos at Thu Aug 21 00:09:34 2003 ...
> erdos kernel: MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU 0.
> 
> Message from syslogd at erdos at Thu Aug 21 00:09:34 2003 ...
> erdos kernel: Bank 2: 940040000000017a
[...]
> if 'twasn't due to bad RAM

Can you focus memtest on the appropriate area of "bank 2" (presumably
that area needs to be not-in-use for a thorough testing?)? Also (and
this is probably irrelevant):

> Machine Check Exception
> CONFIG_X86_MCE
[...]
>  Note that some older Pentium systems have a design flaw which leads
>  to false MCE events - for these and old non-MCE processors (386,
>  486), say N.  Otherwise say Y.