AXPpci 33 (NoName) diagnostics

[Gabriele Gorla]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:40:06PM -0500, Owen Mann wrote:
> Has anybody built/seen/heard of the "LED Display Circuit" that
> displays POST codes via the "LED Display Connector (J6)" described
> in section 2.2.2.10 (page 2-11) of the "Digital AXPpci 33 Alpha PC
> Motherboard OEM Design Guide", Order Number: EK–AXPCI–DG
> [http://www.alphalinux.org/docs/pci33dg.pdf]?
> I have a dead one; For a while it would start to POST, then freeze. Subsequent boots would do nothing till ~1 day later; repeat. Doesn't seem to do much of anything lately.
> Tried everything - no cards/drives/cache, swapped CPU & RAM, reseated ROM, yanked RTC; no change in behavior. Do these suffer "Multia Heat Death" too?
> Anybody have any other ideas?

You can try a standard port 80 ISA or PCI post card if you have one handy.
My UP2000+ does output post codes on the isa bus. I don't have an AXPpci to test but I suspect it will do the same.

GG