Puzzle for Doug...

[Mike Isely]

On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Chris Pirih wrote:

> At 06:08 PM 07/27/1998 -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> >Two systems ... gave the NMI dazed and confused error
> >reported by a couple of folks to the list.  I saw a couple of passes
> >of trying harder, some mindless dumps of registers, and finally the
> >system hung.  It complains of "maybe power management is on in the
> >BIOS or bad RAM".  I don't have the former; the latter is checked
> >twice during boot.  Of course, it could still be bad...
> 
> This is almost certainly a memory failure.  Try swapping DIMMs
> between machines and see if the failure follows the memory or
> the motherboard.

Actually, you could extend this technique - here you have multiple
identical systems with differing behaviors.  Picking a working box and a
broken box and start trading pieces between them until the problem moves
across...

Also, have you (or is it possible on those boxes) tried to completely
erase the motherboard CMOS and start from a known state?  That's a bit of
state which might be different between the working & non-working machines. 

  -Mike

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