Is there maybe a PRAM battery issue? Usually DEC machines (well, uVAX/VAXstation/DECstation) were pretty good about running even with dead battery but AS 300 is new enough that I'd start to wonder... Some workstations e.g. NeXT machines, SGI Indys, soft-power 68k Macs, etc. won't start up at all with a dead battery. I've never touched an AS 300, is it soft power? Try usual computer troubleshooting tactics: remove any expansion boards, try to get some confidence in the RAM; get some known good RAM in there (surely something industry-standard by that time?) or try to get it down to a minimal complement and swap sets of memory modules, see if that gets you anywhere. As above, serial console is also a good suggestion, just try connecting something at 9600/8/N/1 to serial port 0 and see if you get any output there. Best, Sean On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:30 PM, emanuel stiebler <emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:

Hi William, Does it cycle through other LED states before it reaches 0xD1? Or does it just start there at power-on and sit forever? That is pretty odd; not quite sure what to make of that. You tried the console with and without a null-modem? Best, Sean On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:02 PM, William Barnett-Lewis <wlewisiii at gmail.com> wrote: