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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 10:04:10 -0700
From: "Bret Towe" <magnade@gmail.com>
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On 7/6/06, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:19:09PM -0700, Bret Towe wrote:
>  > ill be recompiling without it and seeing if anything looks odd
>  > and the mce i think has always been there as i recall seeing it
>  > when i did previous bug reports
>
> If you're getting recurring machine checks, that smells strongly
> like a hardware problem.  Have you tried running memtest on
> this box ?

not for some time if the memory is bad its must not be very much
cause im not seeing any random effects id expect of memory failure
i will however run a test tho and see what turns up

>
>                 Dave
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