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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!hookup!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NMI Errors Date: 19 Nov 1994 20:39:35 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3alnq7$57s@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <RJS.94Nov18220854@ferroday.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <RJS.94Nov18220854@ferroday.demon.co.uk>, Robert Swindells <rjs@ferroday.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >I am getting a lot of NMI errors on my machine running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1. >The error message reads: "NMI port 61 a0, port 70 ff, port 461 ff" > >The comments in the source state that this could be due to bus-master >timeouts or parity errors. > >I only started getting the errors when I added the SCSI card, but it >could be just pushing the memory harder than before. Possibly. What is the bus-speed? Is it at least 8 Mhz? >I have cured it for now by removing 8Mb of memory, but was wondering >if the error message would allow me to locate it more precisely than >that. This RAM is all chips not SIMM, and I have several Mb that are >currently unused, but it makes it easier if you know which chips to >pull out. If you can find an answer to your question I'm all ears, since I've had this problem with my box since day 1. I have not been able to track down which module is bad and I've been trying to find out how for over 3 years. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD dude and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.