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cartoon(e40-342 maxine) mouse/keyboard/cables
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Chang )
Sun Apr 9 01:59:41 1995
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 95 02:03:17
From: diego@MIT.EDU (James Chang )
Hi, could you please check the keyboard/mouse/cables on cartoon.mit.edu?
It's a maxine located in the watchmaker zone(e40-342) on the hallway side.
It's been having intermittent problems with the keyboard&mouse locking
up- every once in a while it will start ignoring any keyboard or mouse
operations, making it impossible to do anything(I have to reboot by logging
in remotely). Jonathon Weiss(jweiss@mit.edu) said reconnecting
the keyboard and mouse cables helped, so I think it's a hardware problem.
I've included his message to me below. Let me know if you need more
information.
Thanks,
James Chang
diego@mit.edu
jweiss@mit.edu said:
>I noticed today that it was down (had panicked) It didn't like the
>idea of booting. Power cycling did not help. What did help, was
>disconnecting and re-connecting the 2 connectors at the kbd. I think
>I've seen it lose track of it's kbd/mouse a couple of times in the
>past few weeks, so there may be an actual problem here. Anyhow the
>machine is up now. Just thought I'd let you know.
