In the past 24 hours my machine has frozen completely twice. Basically the last screen the computer is on is displayed and nothing works for input and I have to physically power off the machine.
In event viewer I see a bunch of these:
Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Corrected Machine Check
Error Type: Cache Hierarchy Error
Processor ID: 2
The processor ID changes at random seemingly.The error also seems to show up even without the freezing now.
I'm running a first gen i7 860. It's about 4 years old now.
Is the processor dying, or is it something else? No hardware changes have been made in some time to the machine.