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james
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 Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 3:35 pm Post subject:
alpha 164lx won't load srm after flash
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I picked up 2 rack mount 164ls 533mhz Alphas yesterday for $40 a
piece at a local electronics/computer shop, but they came with ARC.
Since I planned to install FreeBSD on one and Gentoo on the other I got
v5.8 of the lx164srm.rom from DEC and flashed the first. All went well
and it brings up the SRM prompt now, but the other will only show a blue
screen with flashing cursor in the upper left. The machines are
identical and the same procedure was followed for both (picked
"AlphaBIOS Upgrade" while the floppy was in the drive).
Any ideas on what to do? Should standard procedure be to flash it
twice to make sure it went on there? It did pass the "Verify"
procedure... I found that the one that works would show the same
symptoms if hooked up to a "multimedia" keyboard instead of a generic
one and my AlphaServer 1200s are VERY picky about ram, but this is just
plain odd. I even tried to connect to the serial console, but nothing
(unless the procedure for doing such is any different from Sun or
Cisco). Any help is greatly appreciated.
I was about to post this to comp.sys.hp.hardware, but its apparently
a different "class" of people from similarly named
comp.sys.sun.hardware... if i should post this elsewhere, then please
advise. thanks again.
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rlmobil
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| Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject:
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perhaps the battery on the mainboard?
Rainer
On Fri, 12 May 2006 17:35:24 +0200, <james <at> hal-pc.org> wrote:
| Quote: | I picked up 2 rack mount 164ls 533mhz Alphas yesterday for $40 a
piece at a local electronics/computer shop, but they came with ARC.
Since I planned to install FreeBSD on one and Gentoo on the other I got
v5.8 of the lx164srm.rom from DEC and flashed the first. All went well
and it brings up the SRM prompt now, but the other will only show a blue
screen with flashing cursor in the upper left. The machines are
identical and the same procedure was followed for both (picked
"AlphaBIOS Upgrade" while the floppy was in the drive).
Any ideas on what to do? Should standard procedure be to flash it
twice to make sure it went on there? It did pass the "Verify"
procedure... I found that the one that works would show the same
symptoms if hooked up to a "multimedia" keyboard instead of a generic
one and my AlphaServer 1200s are VERY picky about ram, but this is just
plain odd. I even tried to connect to the serial console, but nothing
(unless the procedure for doing such is any different from Sun or
Cisco). Any help is greatly appreciated.
I was about to post this to comp.sys.hp.hardware, but its apparently
a different "class" of people from similarly named
comp.sys.sun.hardware... if i should post this elsewhere, then please
advise. thanks again.
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james
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| Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 3:14 pm Post subject:
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rlmobil wrote:
| Quote: | perhaps the battery on the mainboard?
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no change. standard PC type battery. i tried the one out of the box
that's working and another from a spare mobo laying around.
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rlmobil
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:41 pm Post subject:
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Have you tried to flash again with a known good battery?
Rainer
On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:14:57 +0200, <james <at> hal-pc.org> wrote:
| Quote: | rlmobil wrote:
perhaps the battery on the mainboard?
no change. standard PC type battery. i tried the one out of the box
that's working and another from a spare mobo laying around.
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DBT
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 12:39 pm Post subject:
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Attach a console to COM1
My bet it is set to serial and not graphics
I assume you have a keyboard and mouse attached too?!?!
Could also be a bad keyboard/mouse port
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| Quote: | Have you tried to flash again with a known good battery?
Rainer
On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:14:57 +0200, <james <at> hal-pc.org> wrote:
rlmobil wrote:
perhaps the battery on the mainboard?
no change. standard PC type battery. i tried the one out of the box
that's working and another from a spare mobo laying around.
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james
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 3:02 pm Post subject:
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David Turner, Island Computers US Corp wrote:
| Quote: | Attach a console to COM1
My bet it is set to serial and not graphics
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i tried hooking my laptop to it with the same cable i use for my Cisco
and Sparc, but no luck on either port (they aren't labled). grasping at
straws here, but could the serial ports disabled some how? i'll try a
different cable.
| Quote: | I assume you have a keyboard and mouse attached too?!?!
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yes, but i did notice that the one that works doesn't like my multimedia
keyboard (showed the same symptoms), but a standard generic one works
fine so that's what i have on it. i'll try another generic one as well...
| Quote: | Could also be a bad keyboard/mouse port
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the keyboard had to work to do the flash in the first place.
thanks.
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james
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 2:51 pm Post subject:
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"james <at> hal-pc.org" wrote:
| Quote: | David Turner, Island Computers US Corp wrote:
Attach a console to COM1
My bet it is set to serial and not graphics
i tried hooking my laptop to it with the same cable i use for my Cisco
and Sparc, but no luck on either port (they aren't labled). grasping at
straws here, but could the serial ports disabled some how? i'll try a
different cable.
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the serial cable has a bad wire 
when I hooked it back up to the Sparc and it didn't work, pulled it over
to the Alpha and it did. jiggled it a little and it stopped working.
that wasn't expected at all. thanks again for the responses.
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