AXPpci 33 (NoName) diagnostics

[Owen Mann]

I forgot to mention it, but I tried that too. Maybe my PCI POST reader is too cheap, but neither my bad nor good NoName show any codes :-(
Thanks for the reply!

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 21:21:18 -0800
>From: Gabriele Gorla <gorlik at penguintown.net>  
>Subject: Re: AXPpci 33 (NoName) diagnostics  
>To: owen at mann.org,Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>
>
>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