Peter Arnold wrote:
> My blade that I've been using for many months now has suddenly decided
> to misbehave after being powered off for a few days.
>
> When booting it, *sometimes* doesn't display anything ie blank screen. I
> think I've tracked this down to a faulty frame buffer (shame really: it
> was an XVR1000) but as yet I'm not totally convinced and am still
> working on this. Frame buffer has been removed for now.

After a dusting out and reseating of said frame buffer plus several POST
and VTS tests all seems to be working.

>
> My problem at the moment is that the system will not power off with any
> of: poweroff, shutdown -y -g0 -i5, power-off at the ok prompt or even at
> the switch on the front (press or press and hold). The only way is to
> remove the power cable which when re-plugged, powers up the system.

I removed power from the machine (ie unplugged it) and left it for a day
and it's now all good.

>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Peter Arnold