From: Peter van Oene (pvo@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 11:00:24 GMT-3
I had that happen (stripped screws) to an interface card in a 3com chassis
a few years back. You can imagine the look I got from the network manager
who returned from grabbing us a coffee only to see me sawing away full
force with a hacksaw on his chassis :)
At 06:36 PM 1/31/2002 -0500, Giveortake@aol.com wrote:
>Well now I've done it.. I tried to put an image on a router with
>insufficient DRAM. So now it wont boot. I can ctrl break, but I dont get
>the standard RMON> prompt. Instead I get a ">" with nothing else. Very
>limited options available. None of the typical confreg or xmodem commands.
> Thus I can't figure out how to fix my problem. CCO search for 25xx
>gave the typical RMON disaster recovery options but none of them apply.
>Bootstrap is 5.2(5).
>
>Now here is the funny part: I figured no problem I will just yank the dram
>from another machine and dowgrade IOS. Well its in my rack and apparently I
>tightened it down to hard. Stripped the screws and now I can't get it out
>without a drill. I broke all my drill bits on the last one I had to get out
>of there.
>
>Moral to the story: HAND TIGHTEN YOUR RACK SCREWS. Do not use a power
>screwdriver!!!!!!!
>
>Anyone have any suggestions??
>
>David
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