G'day, Sorry to bother you all again but I'm stuck. After turfing my annoying video card and putting in some ISA card that was made back when the used to build pyramids all was well.
But I'm trying to get SRM installed. Currently the PC164SX has the AlphaBIOS installed, SRM looks more useful to me. So I downloaded the sx154_v5_6.exe firmware upgrade program from Digital's ftp site stuck it on a floppy. I tried first to go into AlphaBIOS and sleect update firmware from the menu. The floppy drive ran for a while then nothing happened. It just locked up. OK, so next I flipped dipswitch 7 which got me a blue screen that looked a bit like what i should be getting. But nistead of a >>> prompt I got a mini menu. I then selected update from this menu and once again the floppy drive started. It mentioned two words, I think they were fsb and fw. fsb came back with something like update ok or some other 'good message'. fw said something like not found and then had some filename like nt_fw.??? Then I got the menu back. Rebooting the box got me AlphaBIOS again. I'm going to go over and re-read the instructions again, not easy considering the documents contradict themseleves. Like this: http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/readmes/alphapc164sx.html (referring to sx164_v5_6.exe) " Copy the downloaded file(s) to a blank FAT formatted floppy as : fwupdate.exe IMPORTANT: The filename must remain what you downloaded it as" Brilliant! It must be sx164_v5_6.exe and fwupdate.exe at the same time. I called it fwupdate.exe - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
