[9260] in Hotline Meeting
cutter-john hardware problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barr3y Jaspan)
Wed Jun 3 13:25:54 1992
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 92 13:15:52 -0400
From: "Barr3y Jaspan" <bjaspan@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU, hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU
cutter-john, the IBM PS/2 Model 70 in the SIPB office, appears to have
a hardware problem. The operating system (OS/2) crashes during boot.
Of course, that could be a software problem; however, running the
"Test the system" option from the reference disk also crashes the
system. It runs through many tests (system unit, memory, keyboard,
floppy drive) successfully; then, it flashes up "about to test XXX" (I
couldn't read it fast enough) and immediately dies. I suspect the
hard disk is at fault, but that's just a guess.
Do we have any kind of service contract on this machine? It
originally came from Athena, running AIX 1.2.
Barry Jaspan
