[CentOS] dell poweredge 860

[Scott Silva]

on 2-23-2009 4:25 PM Jerry Geis spake the following:
>> Is the system in production or can you take some time to pull all cards and
>> memory, and test by slowly adding parts?
>>
>> If I remember correctly NMI's can only be generated by hardware.
>>   
> Scott,
> 
> The only card I added was the digium card. It has been removed and the 
> NMI's still were increasing.
> I didnt know memory could cause an NMI...
> What do you suggest taking out some of the RAM, booting up and checking 
> it, then
> swapping the RAM and boot up again?
> 
> Jerry
There are no other cards, network etc?

With ECC memory, bad chips could cause an NMI, as could overheating or a loose
riser card or just bad ram contact in the slots.

If the system has enough memory to still boot with some removed, you could try
there. You could also run Dell diagnostics on it.



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