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Aucbvax.5156 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Thu Nov 12 23:43:03 1981 Joe Boykin VAX flakies >From dee@CCA-UNIX Thu Nov 12 23:04:40 1981 I knew someone at a VAX-11/750 Beta test site that was having lots of similar problems. DEC came in and (1) pulled every board in the machine, (2) applied a vacuum cleaner to the backplane, (3) cleaned the contacts of every board with some freon based cleaner, and (4) plugged all the boards back in again. The problems went away.

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