Likely failure is fans then PS.  I had over a dozen of them two had that
problem.  The boards were good but thePS was cooked.

Allison


On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Andrew Sporner wrote:

> Hi
> 
> > I've recently acquired a pile of VS3100m38 machines. Do these things
> > usually die? Some of my machines (two, to this date) have just
> > mysteriously stopped working. One of them simply refuses to start,
> 
> I had the same problem and mine did have a disk in it.  It was so 
> flakey, I just left it on all the time.  I found that if you were "lucky"
> it would start.  That means, turn the power on--nothing.  Fast off-on
> sometimes.  Wait for a little bit and cycle power and it might.  It was
> so random that when I moved, I yanked the drive and chucked the rest
> (sorry if some consider this sacrilege!)  
> 
> Andy
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Erno Palonheimo [mailto:esp@cc.hut.fi]
> > Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 4:00 PM
> > To: port-vax@netbsd.org
> > Subject: VS3100m38 oddities.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I've recently acquired a pile of VS3100m38 machines. Do these things
> > usually die? Some of my machines (two, to this date) have just
> > mysteriously stopped working. One of them simply refuses to start,
> > i.e. the fans don't spin up, the leds don't light up, etc. The other
> > one powers up fine, but fails during self-tests... It goes through the
> > usual self-test cycle until step B, where it hangs for a long time,
> > and after that it quickly prints rest of the self-test letters and
> > reports error code 0101.0101 with every self-test. What could be
> > causing this? 
> > 
> > -- 
> > --  Erno Palonheimo <esp@iki.fi> http://iki.fi/esp/ --
> > 
>