Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:33:07 -0500 From: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> To: 'Alpha FreeBSD' <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Help with first Alpha!!! Message-ID: <ABC15E2D8FBCD311B4A200805FA7D59B0260409B@1UPMC-MSX6>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi, I have installed on 5 or more PC and Laptops and now I attempting my first Alpha, but first I have a huge problem. I can't seem to get the motherboard to boot. I have an Digital AXPpci33 motherboard with a 166MHz 21066 chip. All documentation I have states that the board is only know to work with 10 video cards which are.... #9 GXE64 ATI MAch 64 CX Diamond Stealth 64 Digital PCXAG-AL MicroCrystal 10SD VGA or 32S VGA TGA 8 PLANE Diamond Stealth 24 ISA 1 MB I have tried the following ... Diamond Stealth 64 2001 Diamond SpeedStar 64 ATI Mach 8 Cirrus Logic 1MB ad 2 unknown 1 MB cards. Nothing works or seems to....Does anyone have this board functioning or have some place for me to go to find info about it. Hell I had the Alpha 4.1 CD sitting hear waiting for 3 weeks now waiting for the damn board to boot! PLEASE HELP.... Roderick P. Person Programmer II Crystal Administrator personrp@ccbh.com "There are many things that you're not supposed to eat, especially children." - Mary Margaret McBride, radio personality [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2650.12"> <TITLE>Help with first Alpha!!!</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have installed on 5 or more PC and Laptops and now I attempting my first Alpha, but first I have a huge problem. I can't seem to get the motherboard to boot.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have an Digital AXPpci33 motherboard with a 166MHz 21066 chip. </FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">All documentation I have states that the board is only know to work with 10 video cards which are....</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">#9 GXE64</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ATI MAch 64 CX</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Diamond Stealth 64</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Digital PCXAG-AL</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">MicroCrystal 10SD VGA or 32S VGA</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">TGA 8 PLANE</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Diamond Stealth 24 ISA 1 MB </FONT> </P> <BR> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have tried the following ... </FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Diamond Stealth 64 2001</FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Diamond SpeedStar 64</FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ATI Mach 8</FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cirrus Logic 1MB</FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ad 2 unknown 1 MB cards.</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Nothing works or seems to....Does anyone have this board functioning or have some place for me to go to find info about it. Hell I had the Alpha 4.1 CD sitting hear waiting for 3 weeks now waiting for the damn board to boot! PLEASE HELP....</FONT></P> <P><I><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="BlackAdderII">Roderick P. Person</FONT></I> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Programmer II</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Crystal Administrator</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">personrp@ccbh.com</FONT> </P> <BR> <BR> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">"There are many things that you're not supposed to eat, especially children."</FONT> </P> <P> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Mary Margaret McBride, radio personality</FONT> </P> <BR> <BR> </BODY> </HTML>
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