shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin) (02/12/91)
Dear Answer Lady, A funny thing happened to me yesterday. I had just finished lp-ing a file, when I found my screen and keyboard unresponding, and then I noticed the beeper in the keyboard emitting white noise (or was it pink noise?). Actually, it took me a good 5 minutes of creeping around to figure out where the noise was coming from. On hitting "reset," the system tried to reboot, but a screen message told me that the console and keyboard were not responding. Powering down and up brought things back up uneventfully, but the screen seems much bluer to me now; for example, the letters on wsh's black background now appear bluish, where as they previously looked white (unless I'm kidding myself), and the default background color seems to be a more garish blue. I looked in SYSLOG, and there doesn't seem to be anything unusual there from the time this happened. I also displayed the color wheel, and there didn't seem to be any missing colors. Also, a month ago I returned to my machine after being logged off for several hours to discover everything dead, and the screen blanked by the screenblanker. Again, powering on fixed things, and I could find no SYSLOG indication of anything wrong. So the question is: should I be concerned? I am under service contract, but I hate to call the repairman in if it's not necessary. I have a 4d-25tg with StereoView, running IRIX 3.2.1. Worried in NY, -P. ************************f*u*cn*rd*ths*u*cn*gt*a*gd*jb************************** Peter S. Shenkin, Department of Chemistry, Barnard College, New York, NY 10027 (212)854-1418 shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu(Internet) shenkin@cunixf(Bitnet) ***"In scenic New York... where the third world is only a subway ride away."***