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Re: [TCLUG:5355] What does this mean?



"Lawrence L. Crisp" <Lawrence.L.Crisp-1@tc.umn.edu> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what this means?  I think I may have accidently hit the 
> reset button on one of my systems, and the first thing in the logs is this:
> 
> 
> Apr 15 18:15:00 x39-67 kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but 
> trying to continue
> 
> Is this bad?

I have only seen that on bad (and dying) hardware.  
NMI = Non Maskable Interrupt.

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