Re: Please enter date and time then freeze

From: Didier Morandi (no_at_spam.com)
Date: 11/17/03 

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:10:46 +0100

Soterro wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have since today this strange behaviour on this Digital PW 600au,
> VMS 7.2-1.
>
> It is a dualboot machine which until this morning ran under Tru64 for
> a longer while. I rebooted it for VMS (in the same way I always did
> it) and it asked me for the new date and time, as always. I managed to
> enter a few digits then the keyboard froze. Not even the caps lock LED
> was lighting when I pressed it. I reset the machine, at the reboot at
> the same moment it froze again. Only the keyboard freezes, because the
> display asks again and again for the date with new lines, and the
> keyboard does nothing. I halted it, booted in Tru64, no problem. Back
> into VMS, again freeze. When I pressed halt, all the garbage I typed
> came on the screen so it's buffered somewhere in between. So I just
> typed at the prompt continue and this time the date was taken
> correctly and the boot process went fine (except for the system's
> mail.mai suddenly missing and not created when the whatever status
> message was sent).
>
> Anyone experienced this funny situation? If there's something failing
> in the machine, what could that be???

(as usual)
What did change since the last correct reboot?

D.

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