Re: Multia woes

["Ken Hansen" <khansen njcc com>]

Now then, this is one of thos places where a cheap *spare*
Multia
comes in handy - for $59 (+ S/H) you can get a "spare"
Multia
with no floppy from http://www.cpumicromart.com/

HTH,

Ken
khansen@njcc.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Ross A. Knepper <rknepper@notfoo.res.cmu.edu>
To: axp-list@redhat.com <axp-list@redhat.com>
Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: Multia woes


>On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Thatcher Hubbard wrote:
>>   I bought a Multia not so long ago off of onsale.  After
putting 64MB of
>> RAM (true parity TI),an external 2GB drive and RedHat 5.2
on it, I found it
>> would reboot spontaneously.  At first, I believed it to
be an aging battery
>> and so replaced it.  Now, it is still doing the same
thing.  It just blanks
>> and reboots, with some weird, very quiet popping noises
from inside the
>> case.  Times between reboots vary from 5 to 35 minutes.
Is this a heat
>> related problem?  I have the machine in the vertical
stand, and it's not
>> near any other equipment that produces a great deal of
heat.  Is my box
>> doomed to be unreliable?
>
>my udb had this problem a year or two back.  when it got so
frequent that
>it was totally unusable, i took it in to the digital
service center, where
>they told me i had a bad power supply, which they replaced
for the
>small(?) fee of $110.  since then, it has performed
beautifully.  it had
>the same symptoms as yours, so i fear you may have the same
probem ...
>
>here's hoping it's still under warrantee,
>
> -ross
>
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