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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!cproto
From: cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol)
Subject: Re: /386bsd: NMI port 61 b0, port 70 ff ????
Message-ID: <cproto.731567802@marsh>
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Organization: Curtin University of Technology
References: <1993Mar6.202010.3841@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <1993Mar7.072329.13390@coe.montana.edu>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 05:16:42 GMT
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nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:

>In article <1993Mar6.202010.3841@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) writes:
>>A quick trip through /var/log/messages came up with the following this morning:
>>
>>/386bsd: NMI port 61 b0, port 70 ff
>>
>>Anybody know what this means...?
>>
>Bad memory chips.  (I get them too.)

>Get faster memory..

>Nate

I had this NMI problem. But then I heared on the net that the cause is
either bad memory chips (or to slow ones) or the combination of 3 chip
and 9 chip SIMMS. I had 4 MB of 3 chip and 4MB of 9 chip SIMMs. Using
QAPLUS under MS-DOS I did verify that there is no obvious memory
problem. I then swapped my 3 and 9 chip SIMMs (from different
manufacturers) to cheap Hyundai 3 chip SIMMs (8 MB i.e. 8 SIMMs). The
problem has disappeared since. I'm still not sure about the cause but
my gut feel is that 3 and 9 chip SIMMs are not really compatible ?!?
BTW all the SIMMs are 70 ns.

Regards - Tibor Sashegyi (cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au)