I have a 16700A with a screen and keyboard attached. The bootrom winds up and does the initial tests, and displays the following on the serial port:
But what it does not display prior to trying to do anything further is the message that reads:
The video system is putting out synch signals that match the configured mode for the monitor, but nothing is visible on the monitor. The system also appears unresponsive to the keyboard.
Both the keyboard and monitor are OK.
Does anyone have some thoughts on what might cause this particular set of behaviour? Or how to find out what the problem is.
I realise that unless I am lucky I will need to change a board, but at least knowing the likely problem area will help a lot.
Thanks
Dave
PS It won't boot HP_UX in headless mode as the HDD is toast - I got a new disk drive today and am waiting for the Re-Ignite CD to be sent to me.
PPS Was there a CLIP for these analysers?
But what it does not display prior to trying to do anything further is the message that reads:
The video system is putting out synch signals that match the configured mode for the monitor, but nothing is visible on the monitor. The system also appears unresponsive to the keyboard.
Both the keyboard and monitor are OK.
Does anyone have some thoughts on what might cause this particular set of behaviour? Or how to find out what the problem is.
I realise that unless I am lucky I will need to change a board, but at least knowing the likely problem area will help a lot.
Thanks
Dave
PS It won't boot HP_UX in headless mode as the HDD is toast - I got a new disk drive today and am waiting for the Re-Ignite CD to be sent to me.
PPS Was there a CLIP for these analysers?
It's quite possible that something happened to cause the monitor to be "de-configured". The message about changing the monitor comes out only on the monitor, IIRC. If you press the [TAB] key at the right time, the monitor input will cycle through the 23 (or so) different monitor modes, at about 3 seconds each. When you see something on the monitor, you can press the [ENTER] key, then [Y] to choose that mode.
Depending on your specific monitor HW, it may not react fast enough to actually display anything, so I used to watch the LED on the monitor. It would usually react before anything was on the screen, so when it turned green, I would press [ENTER]. There a way to get a list of modes from the Boot manager, once you have something on the screen, and set it, but I've forgotten how to do that.
Algoss