Dead NeXT :(

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From: Robert C Duvall
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 04:31

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A friend of mine was working with Mathematica on my '040 cube.  After finishing 
his session he tried to close one of the windows.  My machine's cursor starting 
spinning and never stopped.  After letting it spin for 45 minutes, I unplugged
the machine (the keyboard power key did nothing and the mouse was useless).

After 30 seconds or so, I turned the machine back on and watched it try 
unsuccessfully to boot.  I looked at the machines progress in the ROM monitor -
all of the system tests checked out, but it could not seem to find my HD :(
The error messages reported by the ROM monitor when I tried to boot were:

   sc: selection failed
   ...<lots of these>
   no SCSI device

Is this a fried chip problem or a messed up file table problem?  After 45 
minutes of silence (no disk accesses), I thought that it would have flushed 
its chaches.

In general, where do I go from here?  I have no means (either optical, CD,
or floppy) of booting my machine and no way of doing diagnostics.

Please reply by email to rcd@cs.brown.edu.
Thanks in advance :)
rcd

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