EDAC amd64: WARNING: ECC is NOT currently enabled by the BIOS. Module will NOT be loaded.

Bug #432905 reported by rajesh
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Bug Description

EDAC amd64: WARNING: ECC is NOT currently enabled by the BIOS. Module will NOT be loaded.

ProblemType: KernelOops
Annotation: Your system might become unstable now and might need to be restarted.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC880 Analog [ALC880 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: anubhav 2185 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xfe028000 irq 23'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC880'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0880,00000000,00070400'
   Controls : 33
   Simple ctrls : 19
Date: Sat Sep 19 10:15:02 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Failure: oops
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=941904d3-da16-465d-83c2-0772c42e7a70
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.

 ppp0 no wireless extensions.
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 007: ID 05c6:6000 Qualcomm, Inc.
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0079:0006 DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-10-generic 2.6.31-10.34
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-10-generic root=UUID=1c21f36b-7020-4d74-a15d-eeb768136865 ro quiet splash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-10-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.19
RfKill:

SourcePackage: linux
Tags: kernel-oops
Title: EDAC amd64: WARNING: ECC is NOT currently enabled by the BIOS. Module will NOT be loaded.
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 09/22/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: NF-MCP61
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd09/22/2006:svn:pn:pvr:rvn:rnNF-MCP61:rvr:cvn:ct3:cvr:

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rajesh (bhatt-rajesh20) wrote :
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kulight (kulight) wrote :

apport is jumping with this bu every boot
also i have no idea what's ECC and hoe to enable it to see if the error goes away

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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viktor (lfraisse) wrote :

ECC is a characteristic of high quality RAM chips used in servers (see wikipedia).
You can enable this in your Bios, but I doubt you have ECC RAM installed.

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