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From: schafer@peyote.cactus.org (Raymond C. Schafer)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Unix PC crashing
Summary: Check out the Power supply
Message-ID: <2760@peyote.cactus.org>
Date: 12 Oct 90 22:16:30 GMT
References: <1990Oct12.035049.382@texrex.UUCP>
Organization: Capital Area Central Texas Unix Society, Austin, TX
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In article <1990Oct12.035049.382@texrex.UUCP>, rmfowler@texrex.UUCP (Rex Fowler) writes:
| 
| My unix pc is crashing extremely often, always with the same 
| panic message similar to:
| 
| 	*hpte: 0xnnnn
| 	panic: NM1 (kernel parity error)
| 	double panic:
| 
| When I say "extremely often" I mean - I boot the machine and it usually
| crashes within 2 hours! 
| 

That was happening to me, and after replacing the motherboard, it turned
out to be the power supply!  Can you believe it??   Took a long time
to figure out, as the power supply seemed to be O.K.  Carefull measurements
of the voltages proved it to be defective and replacement cured the
problem.
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Ray Schafer				schafer@peyote.cactus.org
Austin, Texas				..cs.utexas.edu!peyote!micrtk!micro