I followed a colleague's suggestion and popped out the battery for a few
minutes. After putting it back together, it came up in ARC mode. From
there, I successfully updated SRM & ARC firmware to 5.8 from floppy.
Ian Mortimer suggested this technique which sounds like it would have
worked for me too:
>
>made a bootable image on a floppy according to the instructions at:
>
>
http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/readmes/digitalpw.html#method_3
> put the floppy in the drive, power cycled the box and after a few
> beeps it booted off the floppy and I was able to upgrade the firmware.
Toby Bluhm wrote:
> I think I killed a DPW 433. I tried to update it to firmware CD 5.3 and
> partway through the SRM programming, it stopped with a PAL error ( 268
> or some such ).
> Then I tried to boot CD and floppy, but it could not find the devices.
>
> Is there any way for me to resurrect this thing myself or can only
> Compaq fix it for me?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Toby Bluhm
> tkb_at_mr.marconimed.com
> 440-483-5323
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Toby Bluhm
tkb_at_mr.med.marconi.com
440-483-5323
Received on Thu Aug 31 2000 - 13:00:40 NZST