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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:42:31 -0500 (EST)
To: Mike Tibor <tibor@tibor.org>
Cc: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>,
	Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>,
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Subject: Re: unexpected machine check on 5.0 alpha
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Mike Tibor writes:
 > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Trevor Johnson wrote:
 > 
 > > I just got a similar crash:
 > >
 > > 	unexpected machine check:
 > >
 > > 	    mces    = 0x1
 > > 	    vector  = 0x670
 > I believe a 670 machine check can also result from a read of a
 > non-existent I/O space.  I'm not a programmer, but could that be the
 > problem here?

No, that's a 660. (system machine check).
A 670 is much more likely to be bad ram, bad cache, bad CPU, etc.
Its not always overheating.

Drew

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