6 Jan
2015
6 Jan
'15
1:31 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Sean
Caron
Sent: 06 January 2015 16:12
To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts; Sean Caron
Subject: Re: Understanding DECsystem 5100 Self Test Failure
I don't think you'll get too far trying to run VMS on a DECstation... ;)
AFAIK the DECstations are 100% "hard power" and I think the MAC address is
hard-coded, not in NVRAM i.e like in a Sun, or a SGI Indy, so you can probably
just run the system as-is, it just won't autoboot and you get all those errors at
power-up.
I thought OP already tried swapping in the 12887 and it didn't work?
Sort of. I replaced it, and I got the same error. But.... I am not convinced the error is
related to this device. Specifically the RTC tests pass. So not sure what the error is
now.
Regards
Rob