18 Jan
2016
18 Jan
'16
10:57 p.m.
I am not a vax person, I'm posting this for someone else. Could anyone offer
advice for me to relay back to this person (other than reseating boards,
cleaning connectors, or other non-vax-specific stuff)?
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I was hoping you could help me answer a question. I have a Vaxstation 3100
that, when I power it up, fails the test with the following LED readout:
1000 1010
which indicates the failure is in the memory management test. Any
suggestions on further troubleshooting I can do to figure out how to get
this machine booting? My plan is to run OpenBSD on it and see if I can
revive some of the ports for this platform. I'm doing something similar on
my Alphastation 500/400.
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Best,
J
19 Jan
19 Jan
3:01 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jay West
Sent: 19 January 2016 03:57
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: vaxstation 3100 boot issue?
I am not a vax person, I'm posting this for someone else. Could anyone
offer
advice for me to relay back to this person (other than
reseating boards,
cleaning connectors, or other non-vax-specific stuff)?
--------------
I was hoping you could help me answer a question. I have a Vaxstation
3100
that, when I power it up, fails the test with the
following LED readout:
1000 1010
which indicates the failure is in the memory management test. Any
suggestions on further troubleshooting I can do to figure out how to get
this
machine booting? My plan is to run OpenBSD on it and
see if I can revive
some of the ports for this platform. I'm doing something similar on my
Alphastation 500/400.
--------------
Hmm.... I can't find that LED code in the doc I have:
http://manx.classiccmp.org/collections/antonio/a0574hr1.pdf. Which model of
3100 is this? Has he tried seeing if anything comes out on the console port?
Regards
Rob
5:26 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jay West
Sent: 19 January 2016 03:57
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: vaxstation 3100 boot issue?
I am not a vax person, I'm posting this for someone else. Could anyone offer
advice for me to relay back to this person (other than reseating boards,
cleaning connectors, or other non-vax-specific stuff)?
--------------
I was hoping you could help me answer a question. I have a Vaxstation 3100
that, when I power it up, fails the test with the following LED readout:
1000 1010
which indicates the failure is in the memory management test. Any
suggestions on further troubleshooting I can do to figure out how to get this
machine booting? My plan is to run OpenBSD on it and see if I can revive
some of the ports for this platform. I'm doing something similar on my
Alphastation 500/400.
--------------
Hmm.... I can't find that LED code in the doc I have:
http://manx.classiccmp.org/collections/antonio/a0574hr1.pdf. Which model of
3100 is this? Has he tried seeing if anything comes out on the console port?
2:16 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:26:13AM +0000, Peter Coghlan wrote:
Check for corrosion on any memory expansion board fitted and see if the machine
behaves any better with the board removed.
I second removing the board. I had five differenct 3100 m10 and several
had memory issues (and battery corrosion). The fault code seems familiar
but I'm not sure I saw it.
(If anyone wants them, they can have all that I have left)
/P
8:49 a.m.
Robert wrote....
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Which model of 3100 is this?
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That was the ONE tidbit I left out from his subject line. He said it was a
Vaxstation 3100 "VS42A-BF"
I'll pass on the recommendations, and if he has any more questions I'll
point him to the list :)
Thanks folks!
Best,
J
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