"Scroll Lock" causes crash

From: Mike Galuza <mgaluza_at_dejarnette.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 96 10:40:52 EDT

System: Alphastation 200 4/100, DU 3.2c, latest firmware (6.5?).

A bit of history: I wrote in a couple of weeks ago when I trashed my
disk by installing an ISA card. I have since reloaded firmware (the
hardware tech installed the latest version, which I think was 6.5), and
re-installed DU, and under normal everyday conditions everything seems
to work fine.

There are a couple of strange things that have come up during this time
that are really just an inconvenience because they only happen at the
>>> prompt, but are quite troubling. At some point while I was determining
that I trashed my disk, "more" stopped working. For example, I used to
be able to say:

>>> show config | more

and get one screen of output at a time. This stopped working and doesn't
work now even with firmware and software being reinstalled. When this
first started happening I started using the scroll lock key to view the
output. But then at some point (I'm not really sure when) the scroll lock
key started giving me some really bad results. For example, when I do
a:

>>> show config

and try to use scroll lock to see the output, it spits out some unexpected
output (stuff that doesn't ordinarily come from show config) for a second
then the system reboots! Any ideas on how or why this might be happening?

Thanks,
Mike

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Michael Galuza
DeJarnette Research Systems mgaluza_at_dejarnette.com
401 Washington Ave Suite 700 Voice: +1(410)583-0680 x691
Towson, MD 21204 Fax: +1(410)583-0696
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Received on Thu Aug 01 1996 - 17:25:48 NZST

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