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Date:      Mon, 17 May 1999 11:31:17 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Chris England <cengland@obscurity.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: stray irq 7
Message-ID:  <19990517113117.N89091@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990516002105.24081A-100000@divine>; from Chris England on Sun, May 16, 1999 at 12:27:00AM -0700
References:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.990516002105.24081A-100000@divine>

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On Sunday, 16 May 1999 at  0:27:00 -0700, Chris England wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I boot my machine, I get an error ( warning ? ) that says
> "stray irq 7".  Every now and then syslogd reports it as well. ie:
>
> Apr 30 02:58:55 freebsd /kernel: stray irq 7
>
> I don't recall this happening in 2.2.x.
>
> I have tried enabling it / disabling it in my bios configuration, but it
> does not seem to fix the problem<?>

This is typically a hardware problem.  Some motherboards occasionally
generate a spurious interrupt on IRQ 7.  I don't know why it has only
shown up now, though.  I wouldn't worry about it if it's only every
now and then.

Greg
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