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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Jeffry Komala <jk@darwin.tti.net>
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Subject: Re: persistent console crash on 2.1.5R
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On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Jeffry Komala wrote:

> 
> I have a 2.1.5R box that has been operational for a few months.
> The problem is, after a random period of time after I rebooted the 
> machine, the console would crash and the keyboard locked-up.
> The console behaved as if there is no signal from the video card (low 
> power/sleep mode) while the keyboard simply locked-up.
> Yet, everything else was still running as if nothing happened.
> This behavior persisted when I rebooted the machine a few more times.
> 
> Last night, I replaced the PCI VGA card with a monochrome card and it 
> also trashed the console with garbage character after 20-15 minutes.
> The keyboard is still functional though.
> 
> System has Pentium-100 with Triton chipsets, 64MB RAM, Adaptec 2940,
> IBM 2GB SCSI-3, Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B.
> This system used to have 2.1R in it and it ran just fine, never 
> crashed the console and/or locked-up the keyboard before.
> The only piece of hardware I changed when I upgraded to 2.1.5R are the 
> ethernet card and the hard drive. I used to have an Accton combo 
> (NE2000 compatible).

Have you tried pulling the Ethernet card?  Bad NE2000's are known to do
strange things...

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major