SUMMARY: How to get from 433a to 433au again

From: Rainer Wolf <Rainer.Wolf_at_rz.uni-ulm.de>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 10:07:43 +0100

Thanks to all the quick responses !
again I got the blue (srm console) screen with the
,>>> - Prompt ' !
Thanks a lot to:
        "John J. Francini" <francini_at_progress.com>
        "BK, Srikanth" <Srikanth.BK_at_compaq.com>
        Henry Holtzman <holtzman_at_prestotech.com>
        Steffen Neumann <sneumann_at_TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
        Edward Nowlan <Edward.S.Nowlan_at_williams.edu>
        Shane Feeney <Shane_at_bcn.com.au>

Rainer

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Henry send a step-by-step list which stands for all responses
and hit the problem:
Your machine hasn't actually been permuted into an "a" series, but
rather
the "au" series offers both the Unix and the Windows console.  You just
need
to switch back to SRM.
1.  After power up press F2 to enter setup
2.  Select CMOS setup
3.  Press F6 to enter advanced
4.  Tab to Console Selection
5.  Select Digital Unix Console (SRM)
6.  Press F10 key twice
7.  Press Enter
8.  Power Cycle.
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The original message: 
I have a strange problem which already occurs last Year:
System: 2 PersonalWorklstations 433au running Dunix 4.0c and 
        a quite new Firmware Installed.
The problem is that in the neighbourhood there was some fire 
and we had to send the 2 PWSs 433au to be cleanded.
I am not sure weather the cleaning company has removed 
the battery and/or the one eeprom inside - but I am sure they
are on the same places as before.
Getting back the two PWS they are thinking to be PWS 433a and 
NOT 433au .
The boot procedure looks like :
Messages like ...
... Press <Alt-Q> for Fast!Util
ISP Firmware Version 2.6
Using IRQ Number 8
AlphaBios 5.68
... after the messages obove a screen appears with a nice picture of the
workstation but abnnouncing a 433a Workstation.
I have never seen this picture and only can do something like 
InstallNT ... Trying to set the clock which seems to have a date 
like 2027 ... fails.
I just want to get the srm console and get the old ,>>>' - Prompt.
I was already doing a firmware Update to the latest revision 
which suceeded but didn't change the behaviour.
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 Rainer Wolf			rainer.wolf_at_rz.uni-ulm.de  
 Tel: 0731-50-22482		Fax: 0731-50-22471	   
 Universitaet Ulm					   
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