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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
