20 Jun
2003
20 Jun
'03
9:34 p.m.
On 2003.06.21 00:00 .. wrote:
Really I brought my Flamingo DEC 3000 Model 500
Home.
[...]
Now the Panel cycles up and goes through a
series of numbers
[...]
and then stops with DD lit in the status
indicators.
I have a DEC 3000-600 with the same problem. It run well up to the day
when I upgraded the RAM from 128 MB ot 192 MB. Power up, some numbers
flickering on the LEDs on the back and it stops at 0xDD. I reversed my
modifications but still 0xDD. :-(((
Maybe you should carefully reseat everything on the RAM boards. Note
that a RAM bank consists out of 8 SIMMs.
I dont have the distribution media, or tape
media for
back- ups, for this machine If I could force a boot off CD?
You can get a hobbyist
license and distribution media for OpenVMS (free)
or Tru64 UNIX ($99) from DEC^WCompaq^WHP. But AFAIK the latest Tru64
version doesn't support the DEC 3000 any more.
I have one CD which is an alpha version of linux
called Potato?
Linux does not run on the old Turbochannel Alphas. But NetBSD does
very
well if you want a free Unix. There is a link to a ftp site on the port
Alpha page with various docs on Alpha CPUs and machines.
http://www.netbsd.org/
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/