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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: 3b1 failure
Message-ID: <551@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 88 15:58:02 GMT
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Organization: Mercer Co. Comm. College, Trenton, NJ
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Strangest darned thing happened yesterday.  I hit the reset button on my
3b1 and it started to reboot, but after displaying

	Seaching hard disk
	**********************
	
it quit!  And each time, I hit the reset button, the same thing happened.
So I tried the diagnostics floppy, and ran the HD, keyboard, video,
memory, and processor tests, and the machine passed all of them.  I
tried to reboot, and it stuck in the same place.

Then I booted the diagnostics floppy again, and ran the non-destructive
surface test.  It came up with 11 bad blocks.  Next I reformated the HD
and installed the Foundation Set (3.51) again.  Everything seemed fine. 
I installed the communications s/w, and then hit reset again.  Guess
what?  It locked up in the same place!

I'm presently mystified.  Anyone have any ideas?

How long is the warranty on a 3b1??
 
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Peter Holsberg                  UUCP: {rutgers!}princeton!mccc!pjh
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