[mythtv-users] AM2+ motherboard with support for ECC RAM for media player / server

[John Drescher]

>  What do you use to monitor the errors?
>
The cpu reports these errors to the bios and the operating system via
MCEs (machine check exceptions) which are readable on amd64 machines
via mcelog.


Here is some output from a cpu that has a faulty cache:

# mcelog
MCE 0
HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem!
Please contact your hardware vendor
CPU 1 1 instruction cache TSC 176ee9198b952
ADDR ffff88229b30
       bit62 = error overflow (multiple errors)
  memory/cache error 'instruction fetch mem transaction, instruction
transaction, level 1'
STATUS d400000000000151 MCGSTATUS 0
No DIMM found for ffff88229b30 in SMBIOS
MCE 1
HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem!
Please contact your hardware vendor
CPU 0 1 instruction cache TSC 1a24a4a7d6d90
ADDR 2b4efadb29e0
  memory/cache error 'instruction fetch mem transaction, instruction
transaction, level 1'
STATUS 9400000000000151 MCGSTATUS 0
No DIMM found for 2b4efadb29e0 in SMBIOS


John