Thanks Tony, I rebooted and put "nomce" in the boot options and these hardware errors stop (the other errors were related to a CD in the drive, see other post). Great tip. Not at all sure what this does though. I wonder if this is analogous to disconnecting my oil pressure gauge in my car? In any case I'll read up more on MCE and most likely make a permanent entry to my grub. Also not sure why this error occurs in 11.4, as it didn't on 11.2 and 11.3, exact same hardware. I'd agree this seems like its a kernel thing and not an openSuse thing.
Jim F Ok so I was stubborn and wanted to get 11.4 working on my desktop. I am happy to say it's stable for now, can reboot, boot up and use it with no crashes, and I've not had to use the nomce option.
In the digging I did on the internet, several posts I read said the mce error message seems to be an issue with 2.6.37 kernel and I think I found a post some where, saying this might be fixed or something was changed on mce in kernel 3.6.38, so I figured I try updating kernel. I found a 3.6.38-rc7-19 kernel here http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_11.4, installed it. I'm assuming it's release candidate 7, and not sure what effects might be from using this kernel. But I have a usable system for now.
One more thing the mce error kept showing up with the desktop kernel, I'm using the default kernel, and all seems good for now.
Tony
Ok so I lied the mce errors are still there even with default kernel but just not as often, but the system is stable and usable Tony -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org