Re: what's NMI recieved.

1997-01-16 Thread Orn E. Hansen
 NMI is intel nomenclature for non maskable interrupt, and
 it might mean the same under linux.  If so, then the kernel
 is receiving an interrupt that it doesn't know how to process.
 
 I haven't hacked kernel code for linux, so I don't know the
 terms in use.  Am I right?
 
  If its on a PC (and if memory serves correctly)... the NMI should be 
connected to the parity check on the RAM...

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Re: what's NMI recieved.

1997-01-16 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Marc A. Volovic wrote:

 On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Shaya Potter wrote:
 
  I have been recieving an NMI recieved error on my linux box at school 
  recently.  It says somehting like dazed and confused, but trying to 
  continue and it does, but I'd like to fix this.  I know some of the 
  memory chips are probably bad, and I have replacements, but I want to 
  know which chips to replace.  Is there any program that will do an 
  intesive memory check and report if any memory is bad.
 
 Yes, gcc on Linux kernel. 
 
 Start by removing as much memory as possible. Leave 8M and compile. Then 
 insert _another_ set of 8MB and compile. 

The machine only has 8 meg in it :-(.  I like my machine at work better, 
48 MB :-) and as many 4 GIG scsi hard drives as I want.

 
 Just in case, check whether you have Parity or ECC enabled in the BIOS 
 but no Parity or ECC memory...

This is a lowly 486 with none of that just plain 30 pin memory.

Shaya


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Re: what's NMI recieved.

1997-01-16 Thread Shaya Potter

The error message says that I either have a hardware problem, which I 
doubt or a memoery problem, which I think is the case.

Shaya


On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Vatiainen Heikki wrote:

 There seem to be at least two Debian packages that have some kind of memory 
 test programs. There's memtest86 in utils/hwtools and memtest in 
 utils/sysutils. Don't know though if NMI has anything to do with memory.
 
 Shaya Potter wrote:
 [cut]
  know which chips to replace.  Is there any program that will do an 
  intesive memory check and report if any memory is bad.
 
 // Heikki
 
 
 


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what's NMI recieved.

1997-01-15 Thread Shaya Potter

I have been recieving an NMI recieved error on my linux box at school 
recently.  It says somehting like dazed and confused, but trying to 
continue and it does, but I'd like to fix this.  I know some of the 
memory chips are probably bad, and I have replacements, but I want to 
know which chips to replace.  Is there any program that will do an 
intesive memory check and report if any memory is bad.

Thanks,

Shaya





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Re: what's NMI recieved.

1997-01-15 Thread Christopher George Rhodes
NMI is intel nomenclature for non maskable interrupt, and
it might mean the same under linux.  If so, then the kernel
is receiving an interrupt that it doesn't know how to process.

I haven't hacked kernel code for linux, so I don't know the
terms in use.  Am I right?



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Re: what's NMI recieved.

1997-01-15 Thread Marc A. Volovic
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Shaya Potter wrote:

 I have been recieving an NMI recieved error on my linux box at school 
 recently.  It says somehting like dazed and confused, but trying to 
 continue and it does, but I'd like to fix this.  I know some of the 
 memory chips are probably bad, and I have replacements, but I want to 
 know which chips to replace.  Is there any program that will do an 
 intesive memory check and report if any memory is bad.

Yes, gcc on Linux kernel. 

Start by removing as much memory as possible. Leave 8M and compile. Then 
insert _another_ set of 8MB and compile. 

Just in case, check whether you have Parity or ECC enabled in the BIOS 
but no Parity or ECC memory...

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Re: what's NMI recieved.

1997-01-15 Thread Vatiainen Heikki
There seem to be at least two Debian packages that have some kind of memory 
test programs. There's memtest86 in utils/hwtools and memtest in 
utils/sysutils. Don't know though if NMI has anything to do with memory.

Shaya Potter wrote:
[cut]
 know which chips to replace.  Is there any program that will do an 
 intesive memory check and report if any memory is bad.

// Heikki



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