<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Alan Young wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4A0F0826.7020905@teleport.com" type="cite">Matt Turner wrote: <blockquote type="cite">Hi, I've got a UP2000+ that I can't get to boot. When powered on, I get nothing on the monitor or serial console. All LEDs on the board are green (Table 5-1 in the manual [0]). Speaker is connected, but I get no beep codes. Video card is installed in PCI Bus 0. The previous owner said (ignore DP264, he meant UP2000+) <blockquote type="cite">The 264DP in the large black enclosure has a firmware problem. I always had to boot it into the debug monitor (firmware, enabled via switch on the motherboard), load the SRM firmware and then I was able to boot VMS. IIRC I set the console to RS--232 (check). Maybe you find out how to fix the SRM firmware. It's a great machine. </blockquote> I looked in the UP2000+ manual to find out what jumpers he was talking about, and evidently they are some combination of pins 1-2 and 15-16 of J29. Jumpering 15-16 is supposed to "invoke the fail-safe boot recovery," and jumpering 1-2 is supposed to recover firmware. I've tried 1-2 set, 15-16 set, both set, I still get nothing on monitor or serial console. Is the RS-232 comment of any significance? I also read about the debug port (J43/J42) but I can't find any other information about how to use it. I checked the technical reference manual as well. [1] I'm pretty stumped. What should I try next? Matt Turner [0] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.alphalinux.org/firmware/api/UP2000plus/UP2000plus_user_manual.pdf">http://www.alphalinux.org/firmware/api/UP2000plus/UP2000plus_user_manual.pdf</a> [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.alphalinux.org/firmware/api/UP2000plus/UP2000plus_technical_reference_manual.pdf">http://www.alphalinux.org/firmware/api/UP2000plus/UP2000plus_technical_reference_manual.pdf</a> </blockquote> Hi, The docs don't appear to be very clear to me at a first look, but it does reference a SROM connection. AFAIK, SROM connectors are used on many (all?) alpha systems to provide low level system diagnosis. I have a port on three on my systems of varying generations. The SROM connector is a female MMJ connector and it looks similar to a ethernet or phone jack. It should be on the motherboard or each of the CPU card(s). To use it, you'll need build a cable to connect it to a PC-style serial port. For parts, you'll need a MMJ straight through cable and a MMJ to DB9 or DB25 connector (depending on the serial port that you have available on the other computer). The pinout mapping I found on the web, but I don't have my notes handy. If you need them, let me know and I'll dig them up. Then when you connect it to a PC and boot, you'll be able to access the SROM mini debugger via the PC serial port and terminal emulation program. You should be able to find some documentation on the debugger with a search of "alpha srom debugger". HTH, Alan _______________________________________________ </blockquote> Indeed. And to make life a bit more complicated, it is the old DEC style "LAT" RJ style connector, with the key on one end, rather than the middle. <div class="moz-signature"> <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <title></title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)"> <meta name="AUTHOR" content="Maurice Hilarius"> <meta name="CREATED" content="20090218;10580400"> <meta name="CHANGEDBY" content="Maurice Hilarius"> <meta name="CHANGED" content="20090218;11010700"> <style type="text/css">  </style> -- With our best regards, Maurice W. Hilarius Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 Hard Data Ltd. FAX: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue <a href="mailto:email:maurice@harddata.com">email:maurice@harddata.com</a> Edmonton, AB, Canada T5X 1Y3 </div> </body> </html>