On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Victor R. Cain wrote: > Folks, > > I downloaded the SRM 5.3-3 rom image from Microway, since they said > it was necessary to convert to SRM from AlphaBIOS with a "lx164" > motherboard. AlphaBIOS was able to load this image (overwriting itself > of course) and SRM 5.3-3 just gives me the same D/CSOF (Digital/Compaq > Screen of Death) that other versions of SRM did.
What is this "Screen of Death"? > The only difference seems > to be that this one really overwrote AlphaBIOS and I can't get it back. > > I can execute AlphaBIOS by using the fail-safe boot jumper (which looks > for a rom image on a floppy to load) and using a diskette with > "lx164nt.rom" > for AlphaBIOS 5.66 on it. When I then try to upgrade the flash ROM (using > the Upgrade option in ALphaBIOS), I get a screen that looks like every > thing > is ok, a window with: > -- loading lx164nt.rom -- > Upgrade AlphaBIOS > Old version: SRM Console 5.3-3 > New version: AlphaBIOS 5.66 > F10 to continue > > When I continue, I get an error window that says: > --ROM Update Failure -- > An unknown error condition occurred during ROM update. > > My only goal at this point is to get my system, including AlphaBIOS, back. > I am convinced that God did not intend the lx164 to use SRM. I have several all running SRM quite happily so I'm afriad that's not true. > Any suggestions, short of replacing the motherboard with an Intel, would be > greatly appreciated. Try a different version of AlphaBIOS and/or SRM. Make sure the write protect jumper isn't on. Make another floppy of the image... ---rdp -- Rich Payne http://talisman.mv.com
