Re: NMI ??

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:14:11 +0100 (BST)


> well, the mainboard is quite old, (10/95)..
> so, i'll keep it like this.
>
> You didn't answered all my question, what does NMI means, and do i risk
> something if i let it like this ?

Its Non-Maskable-Interrupt. Its an interrupt line on a PC that is normally
wired to the parity error signals off the memory, but on some PC's used
for power management.

Run some big heavy jobs for a few hours (eg kernel builds) - if you get
sig11 errors or other random odd oopses then the NMI may be significant
if not cross your fingers ..

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