Test 3 is "keyboard and mouse bad", I would suggest hooking up a terminal,
and plugging in a mouse terminator (if you dont have one, connect ports 2
and 4 together with a paper clip), it should boot to console and not hang up
on the mouse and keyboard test.  If you just hook up a terminal, it wont
work.  I have no clue what the underlying problem is that is causing all
your problems.  That help?
    Zach
----- Original Message -----
From: "Iggy Drougge" <optimus(a)canit.se>
To: "Classic computing" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 6:50 AM
Subject: Bad bad DECstation
  Our DECstation 3100 has been in a sad state recently.
Both the monitor 
(that
  old monochrome thing without a stand which was used
with the VS2000 
amongst
  others) and the keyboard (LK201) had given up the gist
(the monitor would 
just
  make a flickery sound, without the CRT coming alive,
the keyboard didn't 
blink
  and the console would blink "??" when it
reached test 3).
 I plugged in a Nokia monitor, which worked, if you can live with the green
 picture, and another LK201. That worked for a while, but when I managed to
 boot it (NFS wasn't so cooperative this day), and reached X, the mouse 
just
  stopped moving after a while. I rebooted it, and
suddenly this keyboard 
had
  died as well.
 What the hell is going on? Is it possible to save the LK201s? We're 
running
  short of DEC keyboards as it is, and we certainly
don't need this.
 --
 En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
 If the designers of X-Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than 
five
  steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of
which followed the same
 principles -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. 
Useful
  feature, that.
   - Marus J. Ranum, Digital Equipment Corporation