I also ran sys_basher (http://www.polybus.com/sys_basher_web/) in my
Debian a few times in the past and just now. No errors or crashes.


On 3/7/2010 8:59 AM PT, Ant typed:

Hello.

Lately, I have been random and rare kernel panics on my old Debian/Linux
box (tried both Kernel versions 2.6.30 and 2.6.32). I couldn't figure
out what it was until I discovered mcelog a couple days ago, and it
revealed interesting scary datas in my dmesg/messages and syslog:

# cat /var/log/messages
...
Mar 7 08:25:24 MyLinuxBox kernel: [ 3299.988026] Machine check events
logged
Mar 7 08:25:24 MyLinuxBox mcelog: HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a
software problem!
Mar 7 08:25:24 MyLinuxBox mcelog: Please contact your hardware vendor
Mar 7 08:25:24 MyLinuxBox mcelog: MCE 0
Mar 7 08:25:24 MyLinuxBox mcelog: CPU 1 1 instruction cache
Mar 7 08:25:24 MyLinuxBox mcelog: ADDR c11b6ff0
Mar 7 08:25:24 MyLinuxBox mcelog: TIME 1267979124 Sun Mar 7 08:25:24 2010
Mar 7 08:25:24 MyLinuxBox mcelog: TLB parity error in virtual array
Mar 7 08:25:24 MyLinuxBox mcelog: TLB error 'instruction transaction,
level 1'
Mar 7 08:25:24 MyLinuxBox mcelog: STATUS 9400000000010011 MCGSTATUS 0
Mar 7 08:25:24 MyLinuxBox mcelog: MCGCAP 105 APICID 1 SOCKETID 0
Mar 7 08:25:24 MyLinuxBox mcelog: CPUID Vendor AMD Family 15 Model 43

I am not familiar with hardwares, so I assume this is very bad, but what
part(s) is/are bad? Is my old Athlon 64 X2 CPU dying/damaged? I have had
it and its motherboard since 12/24/2006, so it is not that old yet. I
have the full details on my secondary machine at
http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm.../computers.txt ...

Although, this might be related to the PSU's death back in early
December 2009. My friend and I believe it also took out my EVGA GeForce
8800 GT video card and damage a 512 MB of RAM (tested 3 GB with and each
piece with memtest86+ v4.00 to narrow it down).
http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html has a log of the
details of my systems. I did run memtest86+ again a couple weeks ago and
this morning for 5-6 hours, but not got no errors after five full tests
(passed). I also do not overclock/OC.

Thank you in advance.
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