on 12/19/99 3:14 PM, Wolfgang Rupp at rupp@chello.at wrote:

> Basically, it's a Happy Day!!!
> 
> I got a MicroVAX II, a MicroVAX 2000, a DECsystem 5500 and
> a PDP-11/23+, all in one day...
> ...still happily dancing around :-))
> 
> The PDP is stored until I get a decent rack for it, the VAXen
> boot into their VMS (for now :-) but the DECsystem gives me
> trouble:
> 
> the self test shows two errors and the system refuses boot:
> ?67 2 0E FF 0000 0000 and
> 79 2 09 FF 0000 0001
> 
> About "79" the manual says something like the CPU being not
> configured to run Prestoserve software?? For both cases, it
> recommends to call the DEC field service...
> No description of error codes in the manual, of course.
> 
> Can somebody help me?
> 
> Wolfgang
> 

    I remember someone in comp.sys.dec telling me that a ? before an error
code is non-fatal. As for the 79 error, did you try resetting the NVRAM?
When I got my 5000/240 with the Prestoserve card in it, I had to remove the
card and then reset the NVRAM before I could get to the >>'s. If this
machine was running Ultrix, chances are it installed a bunch of scripts into
NVRAM that wouldn't hurt to rid yourself of. It may also be that the
Prestoserve battery is dead (one or two batteries if I remember correctly)
I've never dealt with this machine before and the Port-Pmax specs don't help
much. Hope that gives you some direction.


    Chris


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