Trouble with my 3/50

[Mitch Gorman]

At my (ahem) new job, I have the dubious distinction of being sysadmin for
(would you believe?) a 3/50M with the add-on 140Mb-Micropolis-
drive-and-1/4-inch-tape doohickey.  There are two teenie-weenie
problems...

At power-on, when the screen lights up, I've got the normal 'Self-test
passed' and system description messages (4Mb RAM, EEPROM v2.3, BTW).
Then, instead of a memory-check message, I get a line that says 'EEPROM:
Using RS232 A Port'.  Then it hangs.  If I catch it quick enough, I can
get to the > prompt with an L1-A, but if I wait too long, I have to cycle
power!  Examining the trace after breaking it, I see that it is cycling
between two instructions that, although I've not fully decoded them, look
like a MOV of some kind, followed by a DBF back to the MOV.  Once I stop
this loop, and get the prompt, I can boot just fine.

Or _almost_ just fine...  the other problem is that I get several 'le0:
transmitter frozen -- resetting' messages throughout the boot.  I do NOT
see them on the console _after_ the boot, though.  I wasn't sure if these
were related problems, but I wonder...

The system is standalone.  I don't have any ethernet connections as yet
(this is being posted from home!).  Anyone got any clues what's going on?

And did Marcia ever marry Kevin, or did Brant's revelations finally scare
her off?  (Those of you who remember my trouble with the Exabyte while at
Rockwell will know what I'm talking about!! :^)

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