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From: donh@microsoft.UUCP (Don HACHERL)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Question
Message-ID: <56189@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 90 01:58:12 GMT
References: <825@savant.UUCP>
Reply-To: donh@microsoft.UUCP (Don HACHERL)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <825@savant.UUCP> kpt@savant.UUCP (Keith P. Tomlin) writes:
>computer system.  The problem that I am having is that during the install 
>part of the setup, the system stops and the OS says that the software was
>unable to mask certain interupts. [...]
> 
>Any Ideas?  Thank you.

If the message you saw was "The system detected an interrupt that
cannot be masked" then that was OS/2's way of telling you that an NMI
(Non-Maskable Interrupt) had occurred.  99%+ of the time this means
that the hardware detected a memory parity error, and the solution for
that is to replace the memory.  If your machine came with diagnostics
you should run them and figure out which bank of memory is bad. 

Don

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