Well,
After a few hours on the phone with Compaq Tech Support, the machine was
diagnosed as dead.
Motherboard and CPU were replaced and all is well now.
I received two pointers to try hooking a dumb terminal to the serial
port and see if anything comes out. No output. Thanks to
mkannapa_at_ford.com for the help and advice nonetheless.
Sam
Greetings Tru64'ers,
I decided to upgrade the firmware on our AlphaStation 250 this morning
in order to step up from 4.0D to 4.0E (DUnix or Tru64 Unix).
I had to make a floppy for the upgrade because our CD drive has been
flaky. Here are the steps I took:
Downloaded Firmware 5.3 from
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/Alpha/firmware
The resulting file was called: as200_v6_9.exe
Downloaded the mkbootfirm.tar and untarred it
Low level formatted a floppy
fddisk -fmt /dev/rfd0a
Ran mkbootfirm with the following command
./mkbootfirm as200_v6_9.exe | dd of=/dev/rfd0c bs=64k
NOTE: I deliberately ignored the instructions and did not rename the
as200 file to fwupdate.exe (I think this may be the problem)
All of the rest of the firmware update seemed to go fine, but now when
the machine is powered on the HDDs spin and nothing comes up on the
monitor.
Is there a way to undo this firmware upgrade and try again? (following
the directions?)
I have checked the video card, monitor, and hard drives for failure (by
installing them on another machine) and all check out fine.
Thanks for any pointers. I will summarize after my problem is solved.
Sam Matson
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Sam Matson Dept. of Chemical Engineering
University of Colorado - Boulder (303) 492-8547 office
matsons_at_ucsu.colorado.edu (303) 492-4341 fax
http://optimal.colorado.edu/~matson/
Received on Mon May 17 1999 - 19:51:32 NZST