Hardware Error

Hi,

From the past couple of days I am getting this annoying message continuously. Could anyone please tell me what this means and what I should do?

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:02:02 ...
 kernel:  720.445127] [Hardware Error]: cache level: L3/GEN, mem/io: MEM, mem-tx: RD, part-proc: RES (no timeout)

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:02:02 ...
 kernel:  720.605038] [Hardware Error]: MC4_STATUS-|CE|MiscV|-|AddrV|CECC]: 0x9c2c400047080a13

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:02:02 ...
 kernel:  720.605043] [Hardware Error]: Northbridge Error (node 0): DRAM ECC error detected on the NB.

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:02:02 ...
 kernel:  720.605052] [Hardware Error]: cache level: L3/GEN, mem/io: MEM, mem-tx: RD, part-proc: RES (no timeout)

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:02:02 ...
 kernel:  720.685046] [Hardware Error]: MC4_STATUS-|CE|MiscV|-|AddrV|CECC]: 0x9c2c400047080a13

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:02:02 ...
 kernel:  720.685059] [Hardware Error]: Northbridge Error (node 0): DRAM ECC error detected on the NB.

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:02:02 ...
 kernel:  720.685086] [Hardware Error]: cache level: L3/GEN, mem/io: MEM, mem-tx: RD, part-proc: RES (no timeout)

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:03:24 ...
 kernel:  802.565037] [Hardware Error]: MC4_STATUS[Over|CE|MiscV|-|AddrV|CECC]: 0xdc2c400047080813

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:03:24 ...
 kernel:  802.565051] [Hardware Error]: Northbridge Error (node 0): DRAM ECC error detected on the NB.

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:03:24 ...
 kernel:  802.565084] [Hardware Error]: cache level: L3/GEN, mem/io: MEM, mem-tx: RD, part-proc: SRC (no timeout)

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:03:44 ...
 kernel:  823.045090] [Hardware Error]: MC4_STATUS[Over|CE|MiscV|-|AddrV|CECC]: 0xdc2c400047080a13

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:03:44 ...
 kernel:  823.045105] [Hardware Error]: Northbridge Error (node 0): DRAM ECC error detected on the NB.

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:03:44 ...
 kernel:  823.045137] [Hardware Error]: cache level: L3/GEN, mem/io: MEM, mem-tx: RD, part-proc: RES (no timeout)

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:03:54 ...
 kernel:  833.285016] [Hardware Error]: MC4_STATUS[Over|CE|MiscV|-|AddrV|CECC]: 0xdc2c400047080a13

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:03:54 ...
 kernel:  833.285025] [Hardware Error]: Northbridge Error (node 0): DRAM ECC error detected on the NB.

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:03:54 ...
 kernel:  833.285038] [Hardware Error]: cache level: L3/GEN, mem/io: MEM, mem-tx: RD, part-proc: RES (no timeout)

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:04:00 ...
 kernel:  838.405045] [Hardware Error]: MC4_STATUS[Over|CE|MiscV|-|AddrV|CECC]: 0xdc2c400047080a13

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:04:00 ...
 kernel:  838.405060] [Hardware Error]: Northbridge Error (node 0): DRAM ECC error detected on the NB.

Message from syslogd@msvlsi68 at Jul 23 19:04:00 ...
 kernel:  838.405092] [Hardware Error]: cache level: L3/GEN, mem/io: MEM, mem-tx: RD, part-proc: RES (no timeout)

Thank You

Bad RAM is a likely culprit. Test using the utility on your install disk. Let it run overnight.