19 Apr
2006
19 Apr
'06
3:11 a.m.
At 11:42 PM 4/18/06 -0700, you wrote:
I finally got a few photos of the HP 1000 that I bought
a couple of
months ago.
any opinions on what I have, and what steps should be taken before trying
to do anything with it?
I just check it over and then power it up if I don't see any obvious
problems. However Tony D advocates removing all the cards, building a dummy
load and testing the power supply under load. I, for one, am not that
paranoid. YMMV. The one problem that I've had on several 1000s is that
after it's been run a while the EMI filter cap in the power supply blows.
I've had about three of them do this. At least two machines keep on running
normally after it happend! The other I powered off instantly. This cap
blows after the machines where running anywhere from an hour to several days.
It appeared to have had a Tandberg tape drive attached at some time.
the cables connected to the back of each card have all been cut by the
scrapper that had it before I did.
Assholes!
There sounds to be at least one small part (screw, nut, broken plastic)
rattling around inside the front area, so it will have to be opened no
matter what.
If you don't have the key, you can carefuly pry it open. The latch is a
simple aluminium strap and it will bend easily. After you get it open you
can remove the strap and straighten it out and reuse it. I open and close
mine so often that I turned the lock 90d and left it unlocked and then
installed some velcro to hold the panel closed. Under the front panel is a
removeable plate that covers the CPU and memory cards. BTW I've been told
not to run the 1000 sithout the plate since it controls the cooling air
flow. One of the good things about the 1000s is that the scrappers
frequently don't realize that there's cards under the front panel so those
cards often don't get removed or monkeyed with.
There was an empty slot a the top of this, so I may be out anything useful,
it may be a junk spare cage with a bunch of I/O if I had to guess. At least
I didn't out a lot for it. I have to admit I was seduced by the switches
and lights that appeared to be on the front panel, and an obvious need to
fill some space in my pile with something.
It appears to have a battery pack that was the rear panel. Due to the
construction, I wonder if it was added by a system integrator.
Nope it's an option from HP.
In case you haven't already found it, Al K has a good number of the
manusls this machine on his website.
Joe
thanks
Jim
http://jwstephens.com/hp-1000/page_01.htm