Re: Unexpected boot on HP3000

An automatic reboot on any HP3000 is impossible. Can never happen.

It requires human intervention every time to do a deliberate ctrl-B, ctrl-A
shutdown, pull the plug (power off) and reconnect (power on)
so that the juice will cause that "automatic reboot" effect etc etc.


I think someone in your environment did it to you and was too scared to say
anything to you about it.

I worked in a place once upon a time when some idiot went into the computer
room, pulled the wrong plug and brought the 3000 to its knees. Once they had
put the plug back in the 3000 started to reboot giving the illusion of an
"automatic" reboot. Still, it needs the stupidity of human intervention to
do that to you.


Of course, maybe it was a virus on your system that caused it.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. There are no such things as viruses on the HP3000 :-)


Brian Donaldson.



On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:05:32 -0500, Herb Statham <hstatham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On March 25th, our HP3000 decided on its own to reboot. We had not
experienced any power outages, voltage drops (that we could detect) or
anyone doing a control-b restart. This seemed very strange to me in that
I had never seen this happen since beginning to work on HP3000's in
1981. I talked to HP support (not the front line guys but the folks that
have been around for 20+ years) and got the same reaction - "...never
heard of this happening on a 3000 box. This wouldn't be the exception
for a windows based machine."

Has anyone on the list gone through an "automatic" boot on a HP3000 box
before? If so, were you able to identify what caused the machine to
reboot itself? Our HP3000 is a 959-KS400 running MPE6.5 power patch
level 2.


Herbert L. Statham
cerrowire
1099 Thompson Road SE
Hartselle, AL 35640
Office: 256 773-2522 x337



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