We have an AlphaStation 500 that, after being power-cycled, frequently
comes up with "EISA Configuration Error" and console variable settings
that have gone back to defaults, and Digital UNIX fails during boot
claiming it can't find a console device. We've been able to get it to
boot by a little dance involving "fix_eisa_config", re-establishing the
important console variables, and running "ecu". I opened up the machine
and looked for a battery for the NVRAM, but couldn't find one like there
is in the AlphaStation 255 models, nor is there any mention of how to
replace such a battery in the AlphaStation 500 user manual.
Is there some way to fix this more permanently? This is a non-critical
machine that we took off support; if there's a simple way to get it
working reliably, I'd be willing to try it.
Received on Fri Mar 30 2001 - 23:58:23 NZST