AlphaServer 1000A not booting

[Adrian Graham]

On 29/04/2010 19:13, "Andrew Warkentin" <andreww591 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Adrian Graham wrote:
>> 
>> PSU is probably bad, I'm assuming the power switch itself works and you get
>> a power LED lit under the LCD?
>> 
>>   
> Yes, the power LED comes on. I would have thought that nothing would
> happen if the power supply was bad. Also, my AlphaServer has an extra
> PSU for redundancy, and disconnecting either one doesn't have any
> effect. I don't think that the PSUs are the problem.

Does the floppy drive light come on? I'm wondering if the SROM has gone bad
and it needs a Failsafe Load, but I guess before that point you should at
least get the POST displaying on the LCD. Do the PSU fans start up? I'm not
near a 1000A till tomorrow so I won't mention reseating the CPU module until
I know it has a removeable one :)

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