[36235] in Hotline Meeting
Re: w20-575-98 is dead
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Dec 18 03:14:32 1996
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 03:13:27 -0500 (EST)
To: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[36034] in Hotline Meeting"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> They appeared to succeed. It didn't test all of the memory, so I did:
>
> ok setenv diag-switch? true
> ok test-memory
>
> That worked. Just for the Hell of it, I ran the full diagnostics
> again:
>
> ok test-all
>
> At this point, the display went berzerk (lost sync, other weird shit).
> I turned the machine off. When I turned it back on, the keyboard
> fweeped as usual, but the power light didn't come on, and the display
> didn't appear to do anything.
For what it's worth, the tcx frame-buffer test causes the display
to "go berzerk" (in the fashion you specified) if the diag-switch
is set to true. So some of this is normal behavior. Of course,
the power light not returning is not :-)
--jhawk
