Machine Check and Machine Check: Regs in Event Viewer

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From: Andrew Wright (AndrewWright_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/09/04 

Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 03:35:01 -0800

I am currently having no proplems with my PC.

It's an AMD Athlon XP 1800 with 1Gb RAM and a GEForce 4600Ti video card.

It boots up fine, runs, allows me to work and play games and then shuts down
properly with no problems.

Yesterday I noticed the following entries in the Event Viewer System log:

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Application Popup
Event Category: None
Event ID: 26
Date: 08/11/2004
Time: 19:20:07
User: N/A
Computer: WFDTC001
Description:
Application popup: : Machine Check:

and

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Application Popup
Event Category: None
Event ID: 26
Date: 08/11/2004
Time: 19:20:07
User: N/A
Computer: WFDTC001
Description:
Application popup: : Machine Check: Regs

I get three pairs of the above events on boot-up. When I click on the "For
more information, see Help and Support Center" link it takes me to a page
which does not help me diagnose the issue as it dosen't give enough
information.

This link provided alot of useful and reasuring information:

http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread22875-1.html

However what I really want is a definitive answer to the question is this
really a problem I should be worried about or not?

Thanks for any help!

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