I had a series of kernel hardware error reports today while I was away from my computer: Message from syslogd at fcshome at Aug 12 10:12:24 ... kernel:[Hardware Error]: MC2 Error: VB Data ECC or parity error. Message from syslogd at fcshome at Aug 12 10:12:24 ... kernel:[Hardware Error]: Error Status: Corrected error, no action required. Message from syslogd at fcshome at Aug 12 10:12:24 ... kernel:[Hardware Error]: CPU:2 (15:2:0) MC2_STATUS[-|CE|MiscV|-|-|-|-|CECC]: 0x98444000010c0176 Message from syslogd at fcshome at Aug 12 10:12:24 ... kernel:[Hardware Error]: cache level: L2, tx: DATA, mem-tx: EV never saw anything like that before. cpu is: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 21 model : 2 model name : AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor stepping : 0 microcode : 0x600084f cpu MHz : 1400.000 cache size : 2048 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 6 core id : 0 cpu cores : 3 apicid : 16 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx f16c lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 tce nodeid_msr tbm topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb arat cpb hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold bmi1 bogomips : 7023.90 TLB size : 1536 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm 100mhzsteps hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro six core AMD, above is one of the cores. Any clues to figure out the errors, and/or mitigate? thanks! Fred -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 ---------------------------------