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From: bes@holin.ATT.COM (Bradley Smith)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Repair places for a sick 7300???
Message-ID: <646@holin.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Aug 89 12:46:15 GMT
References: <10900012@fthood>
Reply-To: bes@holin.ATT.COM (Bradley Smith)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, OIL, Holmdel, NJ
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In article <10900012@fthood> egray@fthood.UUCP writes:
>My old 7300 (which I sold a few months back) won't boot.  In fact if
>won't do anything at all...  not even any floppy activity on power-up.
>All I get is a strange bit pattern that covers the entire screen.  The
>hard disk spins up and resets, but there's no disk activity.  The green
>LED is lit (it's got power), but there is no "heart beat" LED.  Does
>this sound familiar to anyone??
my unixpc does this if shut off for long periods of time.  What I do
is turn on the machine (not even the reset button in the back works)
and let it sit there 30-60 minutes.  Next I (this is not good but it
works) Click the power on and off (fastly).  And hopefully it catches
and the screen clears and boots.  If not I leave it on and try again
in a little while.
-- 
Bradley Smith
Computer Systems Offer Integration Laboratory
AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ 
201-949-0090 att!holin!bes or bes@holin.ATT.COM