25 Jul
2006
25 Jul
'06
12:24 a.m.
At 3:20 AM +0100 7/25/06, Witchy wrote:
On Tue, July 25, 2006 1:08 am, Zane H. Healy said:
Someone from comp.os.vms said it's the mainboard as well. I was
unable to find the document you're referring to, however, the fact
that it doesn't complain when some or *ALL* of the RAM is missing, is
a pretty good sign it is a dead system. Thanks to the Powerstorm 300
and KZPCA (U2W SCSI), both of which I've verified are good thanks to
my PWS 433au, I don't feel like I got ripped off that bad, but it
really ruined my day. :^(
Thought for the day, don't buy an XP1000 off eBay unless it shows
screen shots. It's likely to be a bad sign.
Zane
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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
If the diagnostic LEDs don't cycle through a powerup sequence then it's
more than likely the mainboard's dead. If the memory's bad you get a 1-3-3
beep sequence, if the CPU's bad you'll get a diagnostic display on the
LEDs. If you google for the Miyata userguides (possibly on vt100.net/manx)
you'll get a downloadable set that'll give you LED codes etc; I'm 3000
miles away from my laptop so I can't send it over :)