Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!lll-winken!pacbell!att!ihlpf!olaf
From: olaf@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Henjum)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Panic Message: now what?
Keywords: NMI kernel parity error (***what?***)
Message-ID: <7218@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 89 17:52:06 GMT
Distribution: unix-pc
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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After 18 months of faithful service, my UNIX PC has crashed twice
in the past week with the error message:

panic: NMI (kernel parity error)

I have no idea what this means!  HELP!

   -- Olaf Henjum (att!ihlpf!olaf)

P.S. So far, nothing's been trashed by this error, but it's always
happened when nobody is logged in, too.  -- OIH