DECstation 3100 test 3 fails

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From: Georg Schwarz
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:00

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I've got a DECstation 3100 (firmware 6.71 IIRC) which lately exhibits
the following problem:
when booting with a keyboard and mouse (which both have been tested to
flawlessly work on other DECstations) it counts down the tests to three
and then says failure - press reset. Upon powerup the keyboard's LEDs
flash briefly, and hitting a key lets the keyboard's built-in speaker
beep, but no input (eg. return, ^c) seems to be recognized by the
DECstation. Are the DECstation's input chips fatally damaged? Can it
somehow still be persuaded to boot beyond test 3?

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Georg Schwarz     schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de, kuroi@cs.tu-berlin.de
Institut f�r Theoretische Physik       +49 30 314-24254, FAX -21130
Technische Universit�t Berlin        http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/

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