[ILUG] NMI error

[Niall O Broin]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:26:05PM +0000, rachel.holt at notes.royalsun.com wrote:

> Dunno if anyone call help me on this one but if anyone can make sense out
> of the following error message, I would be gratefuil,( I am using the list
> as a last resort)
> 
> The error message is as follows
> ***Hardware malfunction
> ***Hardware malfunction
> 
> Call your hardware vendor for support
> Call your hardware vendor for support
> 
> NMI:Parity Check/Memory Parity Error
> 
> ***The system has halted***
> 
> NMI:Parity Check/Memory Parity Error
> 
> ***The system has halted***

What's to make sense of ? The system because a Parity Check NMI (Non
Maskable Interrupt) has been generated. As suggested, "Call your hardware
vendor for support".

You could, failing that, try reseating all your memory. I have ONCE seen a
situation where this was caused by some crap software and not by dodgy
hardware at all. Running memtest86 (on the latest BBC) will give your RAM a
thorough testing.




Niall