>The chips heat up. I've got
>2 16mb 36bit simms in it, 1 60ns and 1 70ns. Even when I take them out (so
>it's just the board and video or serial console) nothing shows up (taking the
>ram out was the dec guy's idea..he said it should show some kind of diagnostics
>stuff). The board's a 233mhz noname.
Yep, you should get some messages about x86 emulation and the like when the
video card comes alive. And a blue screen.
>So, can anyone figure this out? Is the board defective?
how about d/loading a disk image, and setting the jumpers to
boot from failsafe boot floppy. If nothing happens.... I guess
it's broke.
You should be able to find some images on
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/Digital/Linux-Alpha/
(If you've done this already, any chance that your FLASH contains a bogus
image? I don't know if that possible though.)
regards,
Conor.