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Date:      Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:19:59 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG, marius@alchemy.franken.de
Subject:   Re: Solid hangs caused by pcm
Message-ID:  <20010907201959.A344@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200109070136.f871akT01296@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:36:46PM -0700
References:  <XFMail.010906170502.jdp@polstra.com> <20010907032058.A33679@alchemy.franken.de> <200109070136.f871akT01296@vashon.polstra.com>

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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:36:46PM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> In article <20010907032058.A33679@alchemy.franken.de>,
>  <marius@alchemy.franken.de> wrote:
> > > screwdriver-in-the-ISA-slot trick.  We're talking hit the reset button
> > > here.
> > 
> > uhm, a bit off-topic, but how das that trick work ? is it about triggering
> > an hardware interrupt? is it documented somewhere ?
> 
> On most (but not all) motherboards, you can generate an NMI by
> shorting a certain pair of pins in an ISA connector.  If you try this
> and fry your motherboard, don't complain to me.  The pins to short
> together are the two ISA pins (one on each side of the slot) nearest
> the back of the case (where the external connectors are).  Don't do
> this on a PCI slot.  Be careful that you short the pins only to each
> other, and not to anything else.

he he he ;-) ;-) I still remember the face of that software engineer
when I grabbed my ballpoint pen and did this for him. Somewhat green his
face was..

W/

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