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On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Steve Price wrote:

> Anyone have any suggestions for what the most probable causes of
> the following panic are?
> 
> panic: NMI indicates hardware failure

  Typically, it is a memory problem.  If you use ECC or parity memory, and
a memory error is detected (and unfixable with ECC), the memory subsystem
deliveres a NMI.

Tom


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