I'd like to thank Dr. Thomas P. Blinn for his suggestions. It ended up
being the CD-ROM drive, replacing it, fixed the situation. My
appologies also, It is a DS10, not an "ES10" as I originally mentioned,
forgive my typo. Thanks again to Dr. Blinn for pointing out that
irregularity.
Regards,
---Andy
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Dr Thomas.Blinn_at_HP.com wrote:
>
> > An update:
> >
> > I replaced the problematic disk in the ES10 and now when I try to boot
> > from the Tru64 CD, the system attempts to bootstrap, then I am presented
> > with a message "Interupt not expected" then the system seems to do a
> > memory dump. It then resets itself, and continuously cycles through the
> > boot process, failing each time with "Interupt not expected"
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > ---Andy
>
> I am guessing that you have a DS10, not an "ES10", since as far as I know
> there is no such thing as an "ES10".
>
> Being that as it may, it sounds like the power outage zapped more than
> the disk.
>
> The "Interupt not expected" is probably happening in the console firmware
> and it is probably causing the firmware (bootstrap logic) to fail; if so
> you may be looking at a motherboard replacement unless it's really one of
> the devices. If that is really a DS10, it may have an IDE CDROM drive
> and that might be what's failing, since the first steps in booting off
> the CDROM are all involved in reading from the CD reader. But if it's
> not just a failed CDROM drive it's probably the motherboard.
>
> Tom
>
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