Alphaserver 1000A CPU upgrade

From: Gyula Szokoly <szgyula_at_tarkus.pha.jhu.edu>
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 20:08:28 -0400 (EDT)

Hi,

  May be someone can help me out. I am trying to upgrade our 1000A 4/266
server. We have a 500 MHz CPU board (54-24799-03 -- according to the
Dec web pages, this is the correct one). When I install the board,
and switch on the machine, it starts displaying messages on the
LCD, it gets to 'srom ... cb', I get a beep and than it just sits
there. The video card never activates.
  Can someone tell me:

1. if this CPU board swap should work
2. where can I find some info about the board? Like jumpers, etc. I looked at
   the dec website, the search revealed lots of pages related to this, but
   the pages are no longer there.
3. what this message is?

  I assume once I get to the console, I just boot genvmunix, rebuild the
kernel and boot the new kernel. Is this correct?

Thanks in advance,
  Gyula
Received on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 00:11:06 NZST

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