Hi Brian,  occasionnaly I get a similar problem.

Usually dust got into the board contacts.  I suggest you buy a compressed
air bottle, remove the boards with an anti-static wrist band, clean the
contacts and put  boards back in.  I would bet it is the memory boards.


Jean Huot
Northern Credit Bureaus Inc.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Duncombe" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 8:29 AM
Subject: [HP3000-L] 918LX Selftest failure


> I am having a bad hardware day!
> The system is not on hardware maintenance.
>
> I shutdown my 918LX.
> - It was the last step in diagnosing a software problem
> - everything was running normally as far as I could tell
> - I suspected a "memory" leak from too many tests of socket
connect/disconnect
> - I know that you shouldn't
> - I know that you don't need to
> - I REGRET doing it, trust me, I do
>
> but...
>
> after cycling power on the system (turned off UPS power to 918) and waited
> many minutes
>
> It starts into the self-test on the bottom line of the console
> - looks normal for a while
> - eventually I get into a loop of
>    ---V
>    | INIT C200
>    | INIT C20F
>    |  |
>    <--V
> - that breaks out of the loop into a
>      FLT 702B
>
> Anyone know where you can read about Self-Test faults?
> I assume it is a hardware problem?
> Any idea what hardware component?
>    - memory
>    - disc
>
> I have tried disconnecting the network (faint hope)
>
> Brian Duncombe  [log in to unmask]  http://www.triolet.com
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> "Inside every large program is a small one struggling to get out"
> C.A.R. Hoare
>