Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:56:58 +0100 (CET) From: Ralph Schreyer <schreyer@th.physik.uni-bonn.de> To: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> Cc: 'Alpha FreeBSD' <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help with first Alpha!!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010311554150.25592-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de> In-Reply-To: <ABC15E2D8FBCD311B4A200805FA7D59B0260409B@1UPMC-MSX6>
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Hello Roderick, do you get any kind of error messages? If, which kind of messages? Do you have a terminal available? Perhaps you can get further by removing all graphics cards and connecting the terminal to your board. Regards, Ralph. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Person, Roderick wrote: > 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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