Unknown Alpha box

[Tom Linden]

It is probably a Miata, PWS500a or au.  From the Alphabios, go into advanced
CMOS
options and there is probably OS selection which will load SRM.  If the
batterie
is kaput it will however always come up in Alphabios upon power cycling.

If this is true, you will want to upgrade the firmware.

What does the box look like?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: axp-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:axp-list-bounces at redhat.com]On
>Behalf Of Jerl Simpson
>Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 6:31 AM
>To: axp-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Unknown Alpha box
>
>
>I am wondering if someone can help me out a bit.
>I have recently had an alpha box handed down to me for installation of
>Linux.  The thing is the guy that gave it to me doesn't remember which
>alpha it is, and there are no markings to indicate anything on it.
>Everything I do leads to a dead end because it does not have the SRM
>console.  And I can't find out to get the SRM console on.
>Is there anything I can do, or look for to determine what this is?
>
>I can gather some information from what appears to be the BIOS.
>
>ProcessorID 21164
>Processor Revision 5.0
>System Revision 0x1
>Speed 500MHz
>Alpha Firmware 4.48
>
>Everything looks like it's geared to Windows NT.
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated,
>
>Jerl
>
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