Re: Problem Solved



It would be nice if you mentioned what the original problem was, and the
affect it had on your computer!

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Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"RBogan" <richard.bogan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1113844553.572833.112470@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Gentlemen...I solved this issue last night. After a few hours of
> testing on two different machines, I have perfect results from my
> "fix".
>
> Here's how I fixed it. Keep in mind, this is on an AMD machine. I'm not
> sure how this affects Intel machines, or even if certain Intel machines
> have this issue to begin with as a result of MCA support.
>
> 1) Open Regedit
>
> 2) Browse to this key :
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
> Manager\EnableMCA
>
> 3) Change the DWord value from a 1 (default) to a 0 (zero).
>
> 4) Reboot
>
> 5) Fixed
>
> After doing this, I no longer have application popup 26 - Machine Check
> Regs on my AMD rigs (2 used for experimentation).
>
> Good luck and if you're the paranoid type - back up your registry
> before changing this value. I happened to stumble across this key while
> entering my own custom registry tweaks on a newly installed OS for
> about the 20th time during the past two weeks
>
> Happy Computing!
>


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