No Console after upgrade to V5.3 firmware

From: Mohan <mkannapa_at_ford.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 13:35:44 -0500 (EST)

Folks,
        I have a strange situation, I dual boot between
        NT and Digital Unix on an Alphastation 600. I know
        this may be not related to Digital Unix, but my
        last boot was to AlphaBios console and I upgraded
        the firmware from the AlphaBIOS console. Everything
        seemed to work OK (I DID upgrade both the ARC and SRM)
        and then it asked me to power cycle the machine.

        After that, I do not get the AlphaBIOS console at all????
        It is blank!!! No error codes even in the OCP window
        (the LED display). Strange thing is sine I have setup NT
        to autoboot after 30 seconds, it goes ahead and actually
        boots NT!!! and then I see the NT login dialog box. So the
        system is functional in the sense the graphics card is OK.
        But, I know longer am able to switch or do anything at the
        console as I do NOT get the blue screen at all!!

        Any advice is appreciated.

        Thanks
        Mohan
Received on Thu Jan 07 1999 - 18:36:47 NZDT

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