[15244] in Athena Bugs
Re: SGI "blue line" problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ted McCabe)
Thu Jul 10 14:13:16 1997
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:13:13 -0400
From: Ted McCabe <ted@MIT.EDU>
To: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, mbarker@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[15241] in Athena Bugs"
Cc: mbarker@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 16:50:29 EDT
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Three sgi systems in 4-035 displayed this problem. They are all
4600-XZ systems, recently upgraded to 128M memory.
The systems had about a centimeter wide blue line at the bottom of the
monitor. Pressing the normal boot button did NOT cause anything to
happen.
Rebooting with the small "hard boot" button worked. No evident problem
coming up.
This sounds nearly identical to the behaviour I noticed on wellfleet
using xscreensaver on 8.1. Lou eventually found that one of the
memory SIMMS wasn't seated properly. Reseating it appears to have
fixed the problem.
--Ted
