I had a similar problem with mine, I don't know if you've tried this but I
stripped it down to small pieces and gave it a good clean and put it back
together, although mine was complaining about the 8-plane video card, I
think F is the built in video card, so it might be buggered.

Dan Williams


> I started playing around with a VAXstation 3100 that was been lying
> around my house for quite a while. After quite some fiddling I finally
> managed to get output on my VT, and for a moment thought I was
> victorious. But alas..
>
> After doing the selftests, which all are succesful AFAICT (it prints
> "x..." for all x in range of F .. 1), it just dumps a list onto the
> screen:
>
> ? x 0101 0101.0101
>
> where x again runs through the values F .. 1. This happens around
> 5minutes after turning the power on. After that the box just sits there,
> and as far as I can tell there there's no activity. The debug-leds 7 and
> 8 burn brightly. I've been unsuccesful in attempts to break into the
> bootprom at any time.
>
> Has anyone seen a similar situation, and even better yet: solved it. Or
> has this box come to the end of its road?
>
> ps. please cc me
>
> --
> Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>                     Of course he runs NetBSD
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>