On 31 Aug 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:22:21PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > "NMI received, likely on the PCI bus ..." together with stuff about a > > hardware problem. > > > > In the last couple of days I've received this worrying message during > > re-awakening from suspend to disk. It doesn't seem to happen in ordinary > > booting. I googled for similar messages and found a few but no very > > clear resolution, although there are some suggestions it could be a > > kernel bug. > > > > I ran memtest86 for 22 hours without errors. I also twice compiled a > > kernel, again without errors. > > > > I'm using a Thinkpad Z61M with Sid, kernel 2.6.20.1-slh-smp-2. > > > > Question: is this a false alarm? If not, what tests to do? The machine > > is still under warranty but I don't know what fault I could report. > > Thinkpads have very good advanced diagnostics. If you don't have > manuals telling you how to access them, check out IBM's website (even a > google site:ibm.com ) using your machine number (the four-digit IBM > number not the sales dept's Z61M. You should be able to find the > service manual for it which will tell you how to run the advanced > diagnostics. > > It is those diagnostics that IBM will run to determine a warranty claim. > The manual tells them which FRUs to swap out until the diagnostics tell > them that the machine is good. > > Good luck. > > Doug.
Thanks for this suggestion. I downloaded the manual but I don't have the diagnostics program. However, the problem seems to have gone away at present. I'll phone the UK support team on Monday and discuss it with them. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
