The machine check architecture is a mechanism within a CPU to detect and report hardware issues. When a problem is detected, a Machine Check Exception (MCE) is thrown. If an MCE is thrown and a purple diagnostic screen displays, a hardware problem has caused it. There is no other way to generate an MCE.
When the system has faults with a purple screen, capture the screen output, then reboot the server and contact your hardware vendor. In the meantime, the information regarding the fault itself can be decoded to get a better idea of what may be happening.
Decoding Machine Check Exception (MCE) output after a purple screen error (1005184) | VMware KB
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