jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) (03/07/89)
Might anyone here have experience with dead 4000's? Ours has decided to quit. The bean-counters have started talks with "official channels" at Apollo, but that promises to be a long drawn out process (at least it will seem like it). Symptoms: - Machine was sitting idle and unattended for about one hour, in which time it just quit. Power here is known to be strange. Despite my warnings, no power conditioning of any sort was used. - Applying power, the two fans each make about a 1/4 rotation. No other signs of life. No LEDs. No drive spin-up. No tape "gargle". - Screen will light, but obviously receives no signal. Machine: - 4000 w/ Maxtor XT4380E drive, Archive 5945C QIC tape, Weitek 3164 FPA, 8MB memory option, Ethernet, etc. - 1280x1024 monochrome monitor. Thanks for any information. I probably can't do anything about this, but knowing what is wrong will be some relief. -- Jim Wright jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu