Unix PC crashing

[Raymond C. Schafer]

In article <1990Oct12.035049.382 at texrex.UUCP>, rmfowler at 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 at peyote.cactus.org
Austin, Texas				..cs.utexas.edu!peyote!micrtk!micro