From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Oct 31 6:57: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de (dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.161.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30A6A37B4FE for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 06:57:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 18875 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2000 14:56:58 -0000 Received: from merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de (131.220.161.121) by dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de with SMTP; 31 Oct 2000 14:56:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 26962 invoked by uid 146); 31 Oct 2000 14:56:58 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Oct 2000 14:56:58 -0000 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:56:58 +0100 (CET) From: Ralph Schreyer To: "Person, Roderick" Cc: 'Alpha FreeBSD' Subject: Re: Help with first Alpha!!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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