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

[Dan Mack <mack@sgi.com>]

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Lawrence L. Crisp 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?

Non-Maskable-Interrupt.  Not neccesarrily bad.  Some systems allow you
to send an NMI via a reset button (some IRIX systems do).  I wasn't aware
that the reset button on a standard PC would do this though.  Cool!

Dan

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