From: Rodent of Unusual Size (Ken.Coar@Golux.Com)
Date: Sat Oct 13 2007 - 21:03:08 EDT
Greetings, programmes!
This is not exactly a Tru64 Unixish question, but has to do with
laying the groundwork.
I've disinterred a PWS500au (Digital Personal Workstation 500au,
an Alpha processor I think was called 'Miata') from a pile of
systems, and I want to get it running again. (It used to run,
anyway.) Unfortunately, I'm having trouble getting to the
console >>> (SRM?) prompt.
On power-up I get a couple of blurbs about BIOS, and then it goes
to a solid blue screen with the cursor blinking in the upper left
corner. It stays like that indefinitely. Nothing on the keyboard
seems to have any effect. If I unplug the keyboard, I'll get some
'kbd test 6 failed' messages but that's it. If I try powering up
without the keyboard, I get some 'kbd test 4 failed' messages after
the blue screen, and then part of the countdown and then the >>>
prompt. Which I can't use, since I can't persuade the system to
acknowledge the [re]connexion of the keyboard.
Now perhaps the fact that I'm going through a ConnectGear 8-port
KVM might have something to do with it, although I don't think
so. It's clearly seeing the keyboard through the KVM, since it
gritches when I disconnect it.
It's like it's in some endless keyboard-test loop.
I haven't found anything online about anything like this
yet. Anyone have any suggestions or ideas?
Thanks!
-- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!"
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