On Wed, May 3, 2017 08:41, James B. Byrne wrote:
> OS=MPE/iX-7.5pp5
>
> Last evening we had a prolonged power outage which exhausted our UPS.
> Upon restoration of power the HP3000 restarted and, according to the
> console display, completed a warm restart without incident.  However,
> at some point thereafter the system halted with the following display:
>

The system is up and running without further issue, other than that
one squeaky HDD that I reported on earlier.

As identified by several people on the list the problem was a
defective memory card.  However, unbeknownst to me, one of the two
replacement cards I initially used was also defective.  It took some
time for our support people from Commerx and myself to finally realise
what was going on as we pulled cards and swapped locations trying to
get a full bank of memory reinstalled.

Fortunately I still have about six two-card sets kept in a vault as
spares, together with sundry other spare parts.  No doubt there are
other duds lurking therein but now I am alive to the possibility.

Thanks for all the help.

And yes, the reason for all this dancing around to keep a 23 year-old
piece of hardware running is PowerHouse and the intransigent present
owners of the 'Intellectual Property Rights' thereto.  To describe
these people and their representatives as unethical grants them too
much dignity for what they are. And what they are I shall leave
unsaid.

Regards,


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