Subject: Re: HELP! DEC 3000/500 gives `F0' on segment display
To: Lord Isildur <isildur@guild.net>
From: Reinoud Zandijk <zandijk@cs.utwente.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/11/2000 17:19:55
Dear Isildur,

On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Lord Isildur wrote:
> my 3000/400 manual just says 'call your dec rep' in the section on
> interpeting the LED's, but it does hint that the code is just the number
> of the self-test which failed (which is consistent with
> {DEC,VAX}stations.)

I've found a posible clue to the problem .... not that i like it though!! 
I looked at the jumper and the guys who trusted me the machine, left the
ROM programming enabled !!!!  Maybe with one of my experiments, I must
have overwritten the ROM ???? Is this posible? Is it a common flashrom? or
how does it work? Is it replaceable ? 

Could this also explain the I/O address errors i encounterd before ?

> dont give up on it! its a nice machine!

Oh it sure is! I would hate to lose it!

Thanks again,

Reinoud