Re: kernel 2.2.2 is dazed and confused

Aaron Tiensivu (tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu)
Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:54:42 -0500


> In the last days I found a "funny" message block in /var/log/messages :
>
> Feb 16 00:15:24 DeepThought kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown
> reason 3c.
> Feb 16 00:15:24 DeepThought kernel: Dazed and confused, but trying to
> continue
> Feb 16 00:15:24 DeepThought kernel: Do you have a strange power saving
> mode enabled?
>
> What does this exactly mean ??

90% of the time it is bad and/or mismatched RAM. Do you have ECC ram by chance?
This can be triggered if you turned ECC support on in your BIOS and you are
using non-ECC memory.

> For the ~ last three weeks had no! system crashes ( Thats enourmous for
> my system ) .

Sounds like hardware failure.

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