28 Apr
2010
28 Apr
'10
6:50 p.m.
Andrew Warkentin wrote: "I know that the motherboard is receiving power because the
"link
active" light on the Ethernet adapter comes on."
I hate to tell you but the ethernet boards led's come on anytime a cable is plugged in
that is connected to other related equipment - a hub, switch, or another computer via a
"null-modem" cable. It does that even with the power cord unplugged.
Do you have any of the manuals for the 1000A? I have manuals for the Alphaserver 1000A if
they might help.
Good luck!
28 Apr
28 Apr
8:41 p.m.
Adrian Graham wrote:
There's every chance the LCD is hosed, do you get anything out of a console
connection? From what I remember the A1000A doesn't beep on successful POST,
first machine to do that was the DS20.
No, nothing comes up on the display.
The strange thing is that it was sitting for a few months, and it worked
fine the previous time I turned it on.
Stuart Johnson wrote:
I hate to tell you but the ethernet boards led's
come on anytime a cable is plugged in that is connected to other related equipment - a
hub, switch, or another computer via a "null-modem" cable. It does that even
with the power cord unplugged.
The light on mine doesn't come on when the computer is turned off. I've
never seen any Ethernet adapter or transceiver on which the link active
light comes on even when the adapter isn't receiving power. I've seen
quite a few on which the light comes on when the computer is plugged in
but turned off, but that is because the adapter is receiving standby
power (the AlphaServer 1000A 4/xxx motherboard does not receive standby
power as far as I know).
Do you have any of the manuals for the 1000A? I have
manuals for the Alphaserver 1000A if they might help.
Good luck!
I downloaded the user manual and the service manual, but I don't really
think that there was much in there that was helpful for this situation.
29 Apr
29 Apr
2:01 a.m.
On 29 April 2010 04:41, Andrew Warkentin <andreww591 at gmail.com> wrote:
Adrian Graham wrote:
PSU is probably bad, I'm assuming the power switch itself works and you get
a power LED lit under the LCD?
--
adrian/witchy
Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest home computer collection?
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk
There's every chance the LCD is hosed, do you get anything out of a
console
connection? From what I remember the A1000A doesn't beep on successful
POST,
first machine to do that was the DS20.
No, nothing comes up on the display.
The strange thing is that it was sitting for a few months, and it worked
fine the previous time I turned it on.
11:13 a.m.
Adrian Graham wrote:
PSU is probably bad, I'm assuming the power switch itself works and you get
a power LED lit under the LCD?
Yes, the power LED comes on. I would have thought that nothing would
happen if the power supply was bad. Also, my AlphaServer has an extra
PSU for redundancy, and disconnecting either one doesn't have any
effect. I don't think that the PSUs are the problem.
11:41 a.m.
On 29/04/2010 19:13, "Andrew Warkentin" <andreww591 at gmail.com> wrote:
Adrian Graham wrote:
Does the floppy drive light come on? I'm wondering if the SROM has gone bad
and it needs a Failsafe Load, but I guess before that point you should at
least get the POST displaying on the LCD. Do the PSU fans start up? I'm not
near a 1000A till tomorrow so I won't mention reseating the CPU module until
I know it has a removeable one :)
--
Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer
collection?
PSU is probably bad, I'm assuming the power switch itself works and you get
a power LED lit under the LCD?
Yes, the power LED comes on. I would have thought that nothing would
happen if the power supply was bad. Also, my AlphaServer has an extra
PSU for redundancy, and disconnecting either one doesn't have any
effect. I don't think that the PSUs are the problem. 
3:19 p.m.
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Andrew Warkentin wrote:
Adrian Graham wrote:
Some workstations will refuse to boot if the CMOS battery is flat.
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There's every chance the LCD is hosed, do you get anything out of a console
connection? From what I remember the A1000A doesn't beep on successful
POST,
first machine to do that was the DS20.
No, nothing comes up on the display.
The strange thing is that it was sitting for a few months, and it worked fine
the previous time I turned it on.
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