NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/os/vms/12802

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From: [e-mail] (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Q: Hardware, why does the microvax wont boot
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 27 Jul 92 11:48:43 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: St. Peter's College, US
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (M. Gaertner, FRM, TH Darmstadt, Germany) writes:
> I own an old microvax II with 6 MB RAM. Now I found a cheap 8MB board
> and quickly removed the grant continuity card and the 1 MB board from
> the first slot after the cpu (BA23-cabinet) and put the 8 MB (Caminton
> is the producer) in.

  I assume you have a MVII (1Mb on the CPU), 1 1Mb memory, and 1 4Mb memory?

> Well, the vax comes gracefully to the '>>>'-prompt, but won't find the
> secondary boot, aka. test 2 and test 1 fails.
> Whenever the cpu tries the test 2 all leds at the DELQUA, go out and
> wont go on again until the power is cycled.
> Since the memory test (6) went good and the board did run in another
> myvax, I have no idea what problem I have now.

  Well, a failure in tests 2/1 indicate that a bootable medium wasn't found.
You mention a DELQA - make sure that the cable between the board and the back
of the cabinet is still properly attached (since it's quite tight inside the
BA23). You might also try doing an explicit ">>>B XQ" and see what error you
get - the message should tell you if the board isn't found, if the board fail-
ed initialization, etc.

    Terry Kennedy        Operations Manager, Academic Computing
    [e-mail]    St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
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