I have a working VAX 4000-200 and bought a spare CPU board for it. I plugged
in the spare board and it seems to hang when starting the OS boot process.
I've included the log below. I looked through the KA660 technical reference
and couldn't find what might be hanging at this point in the boot process.
I'm assuming that I can simply boot from the same OS image as the original
CPU. I compared the few jumpers on both boards and they are the same. I even
validated the EPROM contents to be the same. Is the spare CPU board bad or
is there something else I should be trying/aware of? You can see from the
log here that it does in fact pass all it's tests. Any help would be
appreciated before I attempt to return this otherwise great looking board!
KA660-A V3.7, VMB 2.12
Performing normal system tests.
95..94..93..92..91..90..89..88..87..86..85..84..83 ..82..81..80..
79..78..77..76..75..74..73..72..71..70..69..68..67 ..66..65..64..
63..62..61..60..59..58..57..56..55..54..53..52..51 ..50..49..48..
47..46..45..44..43..42..41..40..39..38..37..36..35 ..34..33..32..
31..30..29..28..27..26..25..24..23..22..21..20..19 ..18..17..16..
15..14..13..12..11..10..09..08..07..06..05..04..03 ..
Tests completed.
>>boot dia5
(BOOT/R5:0 DIA5)
2..
-CAP05$DIA5
Normally at this point you get a "1..0.." and then it boots into the OS. But
with the spare board, it just hangs after the last line shown above. The
EPROMs on both boards are identical as is the board revision and all part
numbers.