I had time to troubleshoot further, and somehow managed
to get it to at
least make it to '6', but
couldn't get it to progress past '9' the
next time (when I had a
console cable connected). I'm
9 is "Identifying console terminal". It's supposed to give up
after six seconds and skip to step 7. If it identifies ther terminal,
it will go to step 8 instead and query the language.
6 is the RAM test.
You said uVAX II but what cards are in there? If it finds
a video card I think the sequence might change a bit.
Also, what is the story on the FCO on the power
harnesses for the
backplane? The two harnesses in
my BA123 are made of a gray ribbon cable pressed into
orange
connectors.
I *thought* it was the early BA23 power harness that
had the issue, not the BA123. A bit of googling through
newsgroups (comp.sys.dec or comp.os.vms) should nail
that down somewhat.
Antonio