Moin !

> >Hmm, maybe the old BootROM got damaged ( some pins bent ) but the new one
> >should at least complein about the wrong processor...
> 
> Er, probably not.  I'd guess that the startup code is _probably_
> CPU/board dependant.
it certainly is, but there were several mails on this list where someone said that his machine complained about a wrong processor.

> >P.S.: I have found an old apollo 400 mainboard, so all I would need is an
> >Apollo 400 case with power supply... hmm, what do you think a 380 BootROM does
> >in a Apollo ? find the HP bits and ignore the Apollo ones ?
> 
> Almost certainly absolutely nothing.  From my reading, the 4xx machines
> come up looking like an Apollo and need some fairly different massaging
> to get them going.  Just for starters, there's quite a lot of
> very different hardware on the board.
OK, I could get a 425t BootROM image...
that should be identical to the 433 one ?

bye
Michael