[Info-vax] Weird Bugcheck

[Tom Adams]

On Sep 1, 3:26 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.

The video board was screwed in and appeared to be seated properly.

I pulled the board, examined it, and reseated.  Nothing appeared to be
wrong
with it.

I guess the moral is don't jimmy connectors on a booted machine.