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to: Russell Tiedt
from: James Bradley
date: 2006-07-13 02:00:04
subject: USR-PCI `Boot` prompt

-=> Quoting Russell Tiedt to James Bradley <=-

 RT> Hello James.

 RT> 07 Jul 06 16:52, you wrote to all:
 
 JB> As the subject says, the PCI USR modem, now gives me a
"Boot>" prompt
 JB> inside Minicom. It's is a HW modem, so there shouldn't be any
"Window"
 JB> issues. "ATI?" (Whatever number describes the HW.) reported some
 JB> devices that do not exist on this machine, so maybe it's time to flash
 JB> its BIOS?
 
 JB> It was working fine, for a year at least. Nothing was done on this end
 JB> to tweak anything, until it went down.

 RT> That is some weird ....

 RT> Russell

I'll say. You can expect it waking up in a data mode now and again, but
even the other ati#s look bunked too. 

I wonder if a lightning stike made it through, just enough to scramble a
few of the right bytes. I'll shelf it for now, and hopefully flash it in a
controlled way when it returns to service.


... James

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