A system control apparatus and method capable of increasing the possibility of recovery from a synchronization error in snooping between system controllers are provided. The system control apparatus has a local port that holds a memory access request received externally and reoutputs it in response to an error retry instruction. A broadcast output section broadcasts the memory access request. A broadcast input section receives the broadcast memory access request. A global port holds the received memory access request. A snoop control section transmits and receives cache status information containing a result of snooping, and detects a synchronization error on the basis of the cache status information. If a synchronization error occurs, the snoop control section outputs the error retry instruction to the local port holding the memory access request that resulted in the synchronization error.
