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From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: /386bsd: NMI port 61 b0, port 70 ff ????
Message-ID: <1993Mar8.205919.17969@sci34hub.sci.com>
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
References: <1993Mar6.202010.3841@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <1993Mar7.072329.13390@coe.montana.edu> <1993Mar7.160356.28837@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 20:59:19 GMT
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In article <1993Mar7.160356.28837@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) writes:
|In article <1993Mar7.072329.13390@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
|>In article <1993Mar6.202010.3841@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) writes:
|>>A quick trip through /var/log/messages came up with the following this morning:

|>>/386bsd: NMI port 61 b0, port 70 ff

|>>Anybody know what this means...?

|>Bad memory chips.  (I get them too.)

|>Get faster memory..

|	Geeez.  I'm already running 60ns SIMMS on this machine.  I siomply
|can't find any of the 53ns things around here at all!

Change your main CPU clock crystal to a slower one. (You didn't mention
how fast you were trying to run your system.)


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Gary Heston    SCI Systems, Inc.  gary@sci34hub.sci.com   site admin
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