Re: NMI watchdog detected lockup

Andi Kleen
2004-10-18T18:21:22Z

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:58:08 -0700
"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:

> > Something on your system creates bogus NMI interrupts. What chipset
> > are you using exactly?
> >
> > Sometimes chipsets can be programmed to raise NMIs when an PCI bus
> > error occurs.
> >
> > 21 is the normal state (PIT timer running, but no errors logged)
> >
> > If you have an AMD 8131 it could be in theory erratum 54, but then
> > normally one of the error bits in reason should be set.
>
> Yes, it's an AMD-8111 / 8131 / 8151 / K8-northbridge machine.

It's probably one of your IO cards. I would remove them one by one
or possibly switch them to different slots (PCI vs PCI-X)

-Andi