On Wednesday 07 September 2005 9:53 am, Peter Watkinson wrote: > I acquired an HP zx2000 system. I had to then aquire an Itanium 2 cpu, vrm > etc. > > I got the system assembled but I've got a couple of questions > > First the system starts up the power led is lit but the system led > flashes green colour, there is no display on the vdu.
If you search for zx2000 on hp.com, you'll find product information and manuals. The "Technical Reference Guide" says a blinking green system LED means "Booting". I'd hook up a serial console to the serial port on the back of the system. Possibly the previous owner had the machine configured to use only the serial port as the console. > The system has a pci radeon 7000 vga card I wondered is it that > the system requires an agp card to display on the vdu. The PCI video card should work; there's no requirement that it be AGP. > This leads to the second question - do you have to use the supported > cards, disks etc listed by HP, or can you use unsupported cards, > disks etc if your using an os such as Debian? Debian doesn't try to validate whether devices are "supported", so other cards should work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
