Alpha 3000/800

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Tue May 14 00:46:24 2002

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Stan Pietkiewicz wrote:

> 1.5.1 install floppy, and got to the sysinst menu, when I smelled the
> ominous presence of escaping magic blue smoke (even though I didn't see
> any!).. I powered everything off, let it sit for a few minutes while I
> tried to find the source of the non-smoke.
> When I powered the 3000 back up, it hung with FD displayed on the LED
> display, with no output to the VT320...
>
> Any ideas as to what might be cooked??

My first guess would be that something failed in the power supply, maybe
due to bad caps?

-Toth
Received on Tue May 14 2002 - 00:46:24 BST