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SubjectRe: NMI ??
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Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> Hi
>
> Yesterday, i added 64Mb of memmory to a box i have (compaq deskpro 575, 2.0.36
> kernel) and it never got to recognise it. I tried to boot linux and it got it
> all. But during the boot, i got this :
>
> Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips or a
> power saving mode enabled.
>
> It's comming from arch/i386/kernel/traps.c :
>
> asmlinkage void do_nmi(struct pt_regs * regs, long error_code)
> {
> #ifndef CONFIG_IGNORE_NMI
> printk("Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue\n");
> printk("You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips or a\n");
> printk("power saving mode enabled.\n");
> #endif
> #endif
> }
>
> The thing i'd like to know is what's going on, is it gonna hurt by any way :)
> what does it mean..

Well, to be frank with you, it means that you probably have a hardware
problem with your RAM.

Roger.

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