Memory Hierarchy Error

By Sean B.
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Ok so I heard a weird noise when I turned on my laptop today, and it was a sound I had never heard. It did it for about 2 split seconds and I haven't heard it since. I figured since I didn't take it with me today, maybe one of my family members did something dodgy on it today so I did a system restore because everything was lagging extremely bad. After I successfully did a system restore, it fixed whatever the problem was.

However I was still curious about the sound I heard so I opened up Event Viewer and I found the following:

A corrected hardware error occurred.

Error Source: Corrected Machine Check

Error Type: Memory Hierarchy Error

Processor ID Valid: Yes

Processor ID: 0x1

Bank Number: 0

Transaction Type: Data

Processor Participation: N/A

Request Type: Snoop

Memory/Io: N/A

Memory Hierarchy Level: Level 1

Timeout: N/A

A corrected hardware error occurred.

Error Source: Corrected Machine Check

Error Type: Bus/Interconnect Error

Processor ID Valid: Yes

Processor ID: 0x0

Bank Number: 1

Transaction Type: N/A

Processor Participation: Generic

Request Type: 15

Memory/Io: Generic

Memory Hierarchy Level: Generic

Timeout: Yes

Since I have no idea what either of those mean, can anyone clue me in? System information:

OS Name Microsoft? Windows Vista? Home Premium

Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001

Other OS Description Not Available

OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Name SEAN-LAPPY

System Manufacturer Gateway

System Model M-1634U

System Type x64-based PC

Processor AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60, 2000 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies LTD 9D.05, 5/23/2008

SMBIOS Version 2.4

Windows Directory C:\Windows

System Directory C:\Windows\system32

Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2

Locale United States

Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"

User Name Sean-Lappy\Sean

Time Zone Central Daylight Time

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB

Total Physical Memory 3.87 GB

Available Physical Memory 2.59 GB

Total Virtual Memory 7.92 GB

Available Virtual Memory 6.41 GB

Page File Space 4.17 GB

Page File C:\pagefile.sys

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I found the following:

Micorosft Windows is reporting a Machine Check Excpetion which is a Hardware Error.

This error was reported by WHEA - Windows Hardware Error Architecture

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppw...ea/default.mspx

Memory hierarchy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hierarchy

Defines Memory Hierarchy Level 1 (L1) cache ? often accessed in just a few cycles, usually tens of kilobytes

Level 1 is integrated directly into the CPU.

So it sounds like it is a cpu issue. Either way, it's hardware related, not much you can do unless it's under warranty.

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