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Subject: Re: question about machne checksum errors
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On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 13:26, Atish Datta Chowdhury wrote:
>               The servers that we get these occasional
> errors on, are mostly dual AMD boxes (MP 1800s, 
> typically) running 2.4.18.  Are the decoding rules, 
> present in Intel's IA-32 MCA documentation, applicable

No idea. I've not seen an AMD document specifying how they encode their
error reports. Normally its overheating and/or crappy power supplies.
The dual Athlons burn power and output huge amounts of heat.