New CPU or Boat Anchor

[Thomas Taylor]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 18:10, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> List,
>
> I installed an FC4 desktop system on a 500 mh hp pavillion without much
> difficulty.  After the updates were done and I started tweaking some
> user stuff I started having failures with some error reporting on the
> terminal screen as the system craters.
>
> If any of you can help me decide to use this PC as a small boat anchor
> or to replace the CPU etc I would appreciate your help.
>
> The errors are as follows:
>
> CPU 0: Machine Check Exception 0000000000000004
> Bank 4: b200000000040151
> [<c011a858>] panic+0x45/0x1b4
> [<c011b1ea>] printk+0x1b/ox1f
> [<c010b223>] intel_p6_mccheck_init+0x0/0xc5
> [<c010b06c>] intel_machine_check+0x0/0x1b7
> [<c01030cb>] error_code+0x4f/0x54
>
> Thanks!
>
> Greg Ennis

Hi Greg:

You have a memory problem.  That's what the exception ..04 and the Bank 4 are 
telling you.  Bank 4 (this may be in cache memory) of your memory is having a 
problem.  Since it's an HP product it uses proprietary hardware mostly.  

A 500 MHz Pavillion is fairly old and is likely to start giving problems 
anyway so it probably would not be suitable for any phigh riority tasks.

If you want to use FC4 exclusively I would recommend newer hardware.

Tom

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Tom Taylor
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Federal Way, WA