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Anyone here knows how to decode machine check exceptions for i7-920?

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Anyone knows how one would go about doing this for a d0 920? i got a mce with 0x9c ( 0x0, 0xfffff8800311dc70,0x0,0x0) and google has so far turned up nothing, and I know there is some sort of pdf out there detailing the intel AMD64 implementation that says that the heck this mce means but just can't find it.

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bump, anyone know where this info is found?

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bump

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Try parcemce under Linux and see what it will say. But it's bank 0, address of MCA_EXCEPTION structure, hi, lo 32 bits of P5_MC_ADDR MSR

( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff559323(VS.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff559323(VS.85).aspx )

You must have an more detailed error log.

also :

In Windows Vista and later operating systems, this bug check occurs only in the following circumstances.

  • WHEA is not fully initialized.
  • All processors that rendezvous have no errors in their registers.

This is what you want as pdf i guess : http://download.intel.com/design/processor/manuals/253668.pdf http://download.intel.com/design/processor/manuals/253668.pdf part 15 - 15.9

I wish you good luck with the task as decoding mce errors is a quite nasty task

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hmm how would I get the more detiled error log, I guess it would be stored somewhere as a log or the dumpfile that was created by the bsod?

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usually c:\windows\minidump

You can read here : http://www.carrona.org/bsod.html http://www.carrona.org/bsod.html - it has enough info to get you started

Also for more help you can try this forum : http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-debugging/96879-blue-screen-death-bsod-posting-instructions.html http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-debugging/96879-blue-screen-death-bsod-posting-instructions.html ( info page on collecting info to post ) quite a few guys with good knowledge are often there and they are nice and helpful

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thanks, i will try to extratthem when i get home.

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