- 1. Indicating that the CMOS battery was dying or had been replaced recently and episodes when it took multiple attempts to get the machine to boot.
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mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check: 0 Bank 4: a600000000020408
mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 ADDR fef134c0
mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 0:506c9 TIME 1526150657 SOCKET 0 APIC 0 microcode 2c
2. At the same time I also noted MCE messages as Mageia 6 booted, specifically:
The vendor's tech service feels that a BIOS upgrade has taken care of the first problem (too soon to tell for sure), but they missed the fact that the MCE errors continue. As can be seen from the third error, the microcode is mentioned and, in fact, the timing of the problems coincides with the microcode changes. I installed mcelog, but it appears that the N4200 processor is not supported so I cannot decipher the error messages more.
My question is two-fold:
- 1. Can anyone tell me more specifically what these errors mean?
2. Could they be related to the changes in microcode -- and perhaps something to be lived with?