Sven Hartge wrote:
In all my cases of a MCE in the past, this was _always_ caused by faulty hardware, split roghly 50:50 between broken mainboard or broken CPU.
As another data point, I recently saw a repeatable MCE error on a machine with faulty memory during a new hardware burn-in test. Replacing the memory fixed it.
-- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies, http://www.tigertech.net/