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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!horga!reswi!reswi!ralf From: ralf@reswi.en.open.de (& E. Stranzenbach) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: /386bsd: NMI port 61 b0, port 70 ff ???? Date: 8 Mar 93 15:46:37 Organization: News Server fuer en.open.de Lines: 28 Message-ID: <RALF.93Mar8154637@isidor.en.open.de> References: <1993Mar6.202010.3841@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <1993Mar7.072329.13390@coe.montana.edu> <1993Mar7.160356.28837@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: isidor.en.open.de In-reply-to: storm@cs.mcgill.ca's message of Sun, 7 Mar 1993 16:03:56 GMT >>>>> "Marc" == Marc Wandschneider <storm@cs.mcgill.ca> writes: Marc> Nntp-Posting-Host: binkley.cs.mcgill.ca Marc> 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.. Marc> Geeez. I'm already running 60ns SIMMS on this Marc> machine. I siomply can't find any of the 53ns things around Marc> here at all! I bet, that this is the BSDish type of "PARITY ERROR!". I use non-parity RAMs in one bank of my computer and the bios' memory check dislikes them very much. But i simple switched of the memory check and BSD comes up without problems but when it attempts to access the second 4MB range; then the "NMI" messages comes once... In your case, that message may be the result of a defective RAM chip. - ralf