On April 7, Roger Ivie wrote:
> The point is that the LEDs on the CPU moudle are physically covered by 
> cover #1 and you can't see them. If you can see LEDs blinking on the CPU
> module, you're missing cover #1.

  I've got the covers...I had left it dangling in order to watch the
LEDs...Mine has two graphics boards on the right; I pulled them out
and connected a serial console.


  I've made a lot more progress in the past half hour.  The machine
actually comes up with the graphics boards installed, but halts
without them.  I found a monitor that would *barely* sync up to that
framebuffer, and now I see the familiar Ultrix installation cdrom
startup messages.

  I now have this narrowed down to four questions:

  1) Is there a way I can tell it not to look for that framebuffer?
  2) Does anyone have a reference detailing the functionality of the ROM?
  3) Is the disk controller SCSI or DSSI?  I've connected a SCSI RRD40
     drive to it and it works...but I've heard conflicting reports of
     some level of SCSI/DSSI interoperability.
  4) Can Ultrix run on a quad-CPU 3540?  The old DEC Workstations
     handbook says the quad-cpu configuration is only supported under
     VMS.  I'd like to go buy another dual-cpu board, but I'm
     apprehensive about it.


                   Thanks again,
                   -Dave McGuire
                    mcguire@neurotica.com