Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:1054 comp.sys.att:3731 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!labrea!rutgers!att!icus!lenny From: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att Subject: Re: UNIX pc fan 27CFM vs. 34CFM and 12VDC vs. 120VAC? Keywords: fan, hot, memory Message-ID: <418@icus.UUCP> Date: 11 Jul 88 05:29:18 GMT References: <401@icus.UUCP> <198@elgar.UUCP> <136@csanta.UUCP> Reply-To: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Islip, New York Lines: 29 In article <136@csanta.UUCP> greg@csanta.UUCP (Root) writes: ... |> |>>> NMI (parity error) at 0x2FFAC8 (*hpte: 0xE17B) Wed Jun 22 15:00:07 1988 |> |>Lenny, one more question about this: |>You say a program gets a memory dump and then does the system crash? |>Is it always the same program (or a version of it) that does this? |>I know I was able to crash my UNIX PC on demand back at the 3.0 level |>with some sick pointer stuff. I doubt it, but perhaps this is related. No I said it get's a "memory fault, signal 8". Usually the program dumps core. (ie. Memory fault - core dumped). I see core files laying around all over. The system hasn't crashed because of this, unless the NMI (parity error) was in the kernel, then probably the system would panic and die. The pointer stuff and this is unrelated, you were right about that. My problem is either heat, bad memory chip, or a combonation of both. -Lenny -- Paper-net: Lenny Tropiano | @-net: lenny@icus.UUCP ICUS Software Systems | !-net: ...att \ PO Box 1 | boulder \ Islip Terrace, NY 11752 | talcott !icus!lenny Vocal-net: (516) 582-5525 [work] | pacbell / (516) 968-8576 [home] | sbcs / Telex-net: 154232428 ICUS | Another-net: attmail!icus!lenny