Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!gp.govt.nz!zl2tnm!don From: don@zl2tnm.gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: More MVII Hardware Help Message-ID: Date: 10 Oct 90 14:17:25 GMT References: <1990Oct9.195516.598@spcvxb.spc.edu> Organization: Me? Organised? Lines: 17 terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr) writes: > In article <8810@pitt.UUCP>, jcd@pitt.UUCP (Jim Durham) writes: > > Seriously, if you have a BA23 master box (with front panel halt and restart > buttons), you should have the power harness checked. The old harness can catc > on fire. I can second this -- we had intermittent problems on a MicroVAX I a while ago. The problem was a cooked power harness. The cable had been pretty hot -- the connectors had cracked and the cable was quite an unhealthy shade of toasted brown. Don Stokes, ZL2TNM / / Home: don@zl2tnm.gp.govt.nz Systems Programmer /GP/ Government Printing Office Work: don@gp.govt.nz __________________/ /__Wellington, New Zealand_____or:_PSI%(5301)47000028::DON