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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!unruh
  2. From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Sun's responsiveness to non-maintenance customers
  5. Date: 10 Nov 1992 00:22:05 GMT
  6. Organization: The University of British Columbia
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  8. Distribution: world
  9. Message-ID: <1dmvbdINNa6f@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
  10. References: <rhoward.720899754@matd> <Bx7nB2.9s@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> <books.85.0@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu> <1992Nov7.005630.3867@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
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  12.  
  13. rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
  14.  
  15. >In article <books.85.0@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu> books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books) writes:
  16. >>In article <Bx7nB2.9s@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> pete@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (cantua) writes:
  17. >>
  18. >>>Does anyone have any info on diagnosing trouble 
  19. >>>it some time for the sparcs.
  20. >>
  21. >>   A typical parts list is: power supply, motherboard, RAM, vidio card,
  22. >>    monitor.
  23.  
  24. >And don't forget to check cables: first check for good solid connections and 
  25. >then, if those look OK, the cables themselves.
  26.  
  27. Actually, the first thing I'd look at is software. of the problems we've
  28. had most have been software ( even theough they looked like hardware)
  29. and one was the disk cable ( an internal short- I happened to have
  30. another one which was good).
  31.