NMI Parity error - causing abend of Netware 5.1 server

[JGliddon]

My Netware 5.1 w/ sp4 is abending daily with an NMI parity error. It is my Groupwise 5.5 server. It is also running Arcserve 6.6 with the lastest patches for Arcserve applied. It seems to only be abending when Arcserve is loaded. We usually leave arcserve unloaded for a few days with no problems, but as soon as we load it, it locks up hard within the next 24 hours.

Has anyone out there heard of a similar problem? We have swapped out all the memory, the motherboard and the DDS4 tape drive. When the server locks, it just puts the message &quot;NMI Parity error at <memory address>&quot;, at the top of the screen and the server is completely locked. Only option at this point is to power off the server.

 

[TheLad]

What SCSI card are you using and in what configuration? Have you tried changing that?

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[rickb928]

i would change the cpu and scsi card, and the nic just in case. it was probably just one thing, but heck, get 'em all. cheaper than a callback.

rick