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

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 kno

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 P

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 tha

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 h

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? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

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