Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NMI ?? | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 1999 10:20:38 +0200 (MEST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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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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