Re: [TCLUG:19105] Alpha problems

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Charles Clifton Fulton wrote:
> 
> Anyone out there know much about Alphas?  I have a 333 in an EB164
> Mainboard.  I was trying to get rid of NT and prepare it to boot something
> not NT and I *think* I broke it.
> 
> I changed the boot setting from NT to Digital UNIX and powered the system
> down like it asked me to.  Now I don't get any output from the video card.
> The keyboard LEDs blink and it beeps just as usual but doesn't display
> anything.

I know next to nothing about Alphas, but I'm curious if you would get
anything by connecting a laptop or something to the serial port. 
Perhaps the Digital UNIX mode doesn't initialize the video card,
assuming that you're going for the headless server situation..

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