On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 12:28:02PM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: > I trolled around quickly, and the most useful stuff I found for your machine > is on the net at: > > http://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/Alpha/firmware/archive/dec3000.html > > It seems possible that you might be able to boot the firmware updater even if > the normal system bootstrap is failing. I'd certainly try that before doing > anything more esoteric. > I tried that already. Unfortunately it assumes you can either boot the machine from disk or network. Neither of which still works :( I attached a log of my net boot attempt. > Also, while it's too late to help you now, it's pretty clear from reading the > firmware updater's documentation that there's a jumper you can move to write > protect the flash... might want to do that before you proceed with your > development, regardless of what it takes to get the machine fixed. ;-) > I noticed now yes. Unfortunately the factory default jumper position is write enabled... > If you can't boot the firmware updater, log the errors you get from it and I'll > try to find someone in HP who knows/remembers enough about that type of system > to suggest what you should try next. Thanks, Peter (p2).
DEC 3000 - M300X
Digital Equipment Corporation
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CPU OK KN16-CA -V7.0-S889-I21F-sV2.1 -DECchip 21064 P3.0
OSC 175 MHz
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MEM OK 64MB
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PC= 00000000.000799F0 PSL= 00000000.00001F00
>>> boot ez0
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>>>
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