From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Oct 10 21:34:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-176-106.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F3E37B503 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:34:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9B4abh04403; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:36:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200010110436.e9B4abh04403@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: matthew zeier Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic: NMI indicates hardware failure In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Oct 2000 17:20:23 PDT." <20001009172022.A12975@intelenet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:36:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > I'm not sure how to understand this error: > > panic: NMI indicates hardware failure > > > It causes the box to reboot. What is NMI? NMI stands for "non maskable interrupt", and it's a signal from the hardware indicating a critical failure. > How can I tell what hardware has failed? You can't, easily. 8( It's most likely a PCI SERR, probably caused by bad motherboard timing. > How can I fix this? Default your PCI configuration to begin with. Check that you're not overclocking anything. > I'm running 4.1.1 with GENERIC + IPFilter on an Intel ISP 2150 with a > Mylex 150 RAID controller. You might want to check that the Mylex controller is properly seated, and that it's using Mylex-certified RAM (if it's the memory it came with, it should be OK). -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message