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Hi all,

I have a cisco 7200 that I was conected to a few days via Hyperterm and
everything as wrking fine.

Now when I boot the box it boots with a consol cable attached I am able
to see the boot process but when I get to the stage where it says press
return to continu the keyboard functions do not seem to be working.

I have reseated all cards in the system as I thought this may be
causing a problem with the console port.

If I use the same cable and connector to connect to another router it
works fine. The cable is one of the silver ones.

Here is a Screen dump of the boot process


System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(20000914:181332) [bwhatley-npe200 102],
DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE
Copyright (c) 1994-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C7200 platform with 98304 Kbytes of main memory

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

Self decompressing the image :
################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################
[OK]


%SYS-4-CONFIG_NEWER: Configuration from version 12.1 may not be
correctly understood
Can't set restart-delay for this interface
Can't set restart-delay for this interface
Can't set restart-delay for this interface
Can't set restart-delay for this interface
%SYS-6-BOOT_MESSAGES: Messages above this line are from the boot
loader.
Self decompressing the image :
################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ########
[OK]


Restricted Rights Legend

Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is
subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph
(c) of the Commercial Computer Software - Restricted
Rights clause at FAR sec. 52.227-19 and subparagraph
(c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer
Software clause at DFARS sec. 252.227-7013.

cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, California 95134-1706



Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 7200 Software (C7200-IS-M), Version 12.1(8a)E, EARLY
DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
TAC Support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
Copyright (c) 1986-2001 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Mon 09-Jul-01 01:26 by hqluong
Image text-base: 0x60008950, data-base: 0x61152000

cisco 7204 (NPE150) processor (revision B) with 81920K/16384K bytes of
memory.
Processor board ID 5117097
R4700 CPU at 150Mhz, Implementation 33, Rev 1.0, 512KB L2 Cache
4 slot midplane, Version 1.0

Last reset from power-on
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
4 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
4 Serial network interface(s)
9 ATM network interface(s)
125K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
1024K bytes of packet SRAM memory.

16384K bytes of Flash PCMCIA card at slot 1 (Sector size 128K).
4096K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256K).


Press RETURN to get started!

If I press RETURN here I get no response

Thanks in advance for the help

wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a cisco 7200 that I was conected to a few days via Hyperterm and
> everything as wrking fine.
>
> Now when I boot the box it boots with a consol cable attached I am able
> to see the boot process but when I get to the stage where it says press
> return to continu the keyboard functions do not seem to be working.

Could it be that you have changed the settings of your terminal program?
It should be configured to HW Handshake, no XON/XOFF ... also, could the
cable be damaged? And lastly, did you try to hook the cable to the AUX
port and see if you could do anything on it? (only works after the
router is fully up)

-gg

Yea I have a Cisco 4500 just above the 7200 and when I connect the
cable to that it works fine so I am assuming the cable is fine but I
will try a new one just to see.

If I try to use the break sequence when the 7200 is booting I do not
get into the router. It seems like the video output from the console
port is working fine but the imput is not functioning.

All the settings are the same as they were last week for terminal
program.

M

wrote:

> Yea I have a Cisco 4500 just above the 7200 and when I connect the
> cable to that it works fine so I am assuming the cable is fine but I
> will try a new one just to see.
>
> If I try to use the break sequence when the 7200 is booting I do not
> get into the router. It seems like the video output from the console
> port is working fine but the imput is not functioning.
>
> All the settings are the same as they were last week for terminal
> program.


Some hardware flavors are move finicky then others. Try a different
program like Tera Term. Make sure your flow control is set to NONE.



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hsb


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Yea I have tried the following

New cables and new connectors.
New telnet program
Reseated all cards and interfaces
All Different settings in Terminal program

Booted without boot memory to force to go into boot mode


After doing all of these things I still have the same problem that I
see the system booting but I am unable to interact with the Router via
the keyboard and Console port.

What is the likleyhood that there is a hardware malfunction on the
console port on the router that is not letting test be recieved from my
computer?

M

wrote:

> Yea I have tried the following
>
> New cables and new connectors.
> New telnet program
> Reseated all cards and interfaces
> All Different settings in Terminal program
>
> Booted without boot memory to force to go into boot mode
>
>
> After doing all of these things I still have the same problem that I
> see the system booting but I am unable to interact with the Router via
> the keyboard and Console port.
>
> What is the likleyhood that there is a hardware malfunction on the
> console port on the router that is not letting test be recieved from
> my computer?


It's always possible. But as I recall, the model you're talking about
didn't have ISDN near the console port. That's how most people blow
out the console port. But if you tried all of the above (*including*
changing flow control to NONE), then it must be bad hardware.

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hsb


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