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  From: Richard Russell <richard@yellowgoanna.com>
  To  : <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
        <mike@pineview.net>
  Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 21:23:51 +0930

RE: Clearing Bios like Settings on a AplhaStation 200 4/166

Also, is there a jumper or battery you can disconnnect?

hmmm.... there's a battery pictured here:

http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/download/ek-pcdta-ui-e01.pdf

Figure 2-4 has the battery marked

Also, Page 3-24 explains how to replace it, and tells you that you will
have to re-enter config and setup data using the ARC or SRM console...

Prior to doing this, you may wish to check if it uses the serial port...
I have once locked myself out of a sun by setting the OpenPROM to boot
from serial when I didn't mean to... (duh)

Also, it could just be that the monitor is incompatible. I have a
JavaStation here (anyone want to buy a Javastation? It runs Linux
(boot/root from NFS) and is silent), and I had a struggle to get a
monitor to sync with it. Ended up going to a 2nd hand place (Monitors
Reborn or some such) on Main North East Road, and just trying it with
about five old monitors until one (an old Apple one) worked...

rr

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Richard Russell
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f: +61 8 8462 2362
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wilkinson,Alex [mailto:Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 May 2002 4:04 PM
> To: Mike O'Connor
> Cc: LinuxSA List
> Subject: Re: Clearing Bios like Settings on a AplhaStation 200 4/166
> 
> 
> 
> "at boot time" ??
> 
> Do you mean from the SRM ?
> 
> Can you get to the point of your monitor displaying the SRM ?
> 
>  - aW
> 
> 	I think this have been incorrectly set, does any one 
> know how to over ride this
> 	at boot time ?
> 
> 
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