[Info-vax] Weird Bugcheck

[Rich Jordan]

On Sep 1, 2:26 pm, tadamsmar <tadams... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> My technical lead reached behind a DS10 and jimmyed the video
> connector. (He was trying to disconnect it, and has that bad habit of
> jimmying things that are screwed in instead of gently unscrewing them
> and removing them with minimum force. He has been lectured on the
> matter.)
>
> I got an immediate bugcheck and reboot.
>
> Where do I start on analyzing a bugcheck, by the way?  I have not done
> that in a long time.
>
> This is VMS 7.3-2 up-to-date on patches except those since the recent
> cumulative update 9.
>
> When the system was not in use, I tested carefully unscrewing and
> reconnecting the video connector. No bugcheck.

I suppose with

ANALYZE/CRASH  SYS$SYSTEM:SYSDUMP.DMP   (use your own dumpfile name/
location)

SDA> SHOW CRASH


And check to see if your video card is fimrly seated and has the screw
holding it in; rocking the cable may have flexed the card out of the
PCI socket.  Hopefully it didn't cause real damage.