Zane H. Healy wrote:
  At 3:20 AM +0100 7/25/06, Witchy wrote:
> On Tue, July 25, 2006 1:08 am, Zane H. Healy said:
>
>>
>>  Does anyone here know what the startup of a Compaq XP1000 (Alpha-based
>>  system for OpenVMS) is supposed to look like?
>
>
> yup.
>
>>  powers on, and all 8 diagnostic LED's light up.  There are no beeps,
>> and
>>  there is no video.  I've tried to connect a VT420 to the serial ports 
   Zane, did you check the internal fans?  Some of the AXP boxen won't
even POST if the CPU fan isn't reporting.  On my 164LX, even a good fan
with "standard" RPM signal isn't what it wants.
        Doc