[Info-vax] Weird Bugcheck

[Tom Adams]

On Sep 1, 6:54 pm, Rich Jordan <jor... at ccs4vms.com> wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2:26 pm, tadamsmar <tadams... at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > 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.)
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> > I got an immediate bugcheck and reboot.
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> > Where do I start on analyzing a bugcheck, by the way?  I have not done
> > that in a long time.
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> > This is VMS 7.3-2 up-to-date on patches except those since the recent
> > cumulative update 9.
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> > When the system was not in use, I tested carefully unscrewing and
> > reconnecting the video connector. No bugcheck.
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> I suppose with
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> ANALYZE/CRASH  SYS$SYSTEM:SYSDUMP.DMP   (use your own dumpfile name/
> location)
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> SDA> SHOW CRASH
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> 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.- Hide quoted text -
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That's a great idea, I will do it as soon as I can shutdown the
system.

Thanks to all!