[rescue] IBM RS6000 43P-140

[Thomas Gallaway]

Patrick Finnegan wrote:

>On Monday 19 April 2004 21:05, Thomas Gallaway wrote:
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>>Eric Webb wrote:
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>>>On Monday 19 April 2004 09:16 pm, Thomas Gallaway wrote:
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>>>>Just found a IBM RS6k 43P-140. Wont show anything on the monitor
>>>>but has VGA. It has PS2 so I assume it
>>>>might be set to console. Will check that later.
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>>>RS/6000's (generally, there are some exceptions) don't do anything
>>>on the serial port until after the OS is well on its way to being
>>>up (that's what the LED is for).  Plug in a tube and standard PS/2
>>>keyboard/mouse and you can access the SMS screens for some very
>>>basic "diag" information and config. Just press (or press several
>>>times) the F1 key in between the chirp sound effect and the fanfare
>>>sound effect.  (Or is it F10?)
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>>Hmm there is no chirp sound so far. And no fanfare. It is a F22.
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>Is there memory installed? F22 sounds like either the machine has no 
>memory or has bad memory installed.  If there is memory, try reseating 
>it and see if that helps.
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>Pat
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I am getting a F30 error now. I put in some ram out of a dell server 
that was within the specs
of memory. Maybe it's not the right ram. But could find no reference to 
a F30 error. Googling
for it will not bring anything up either that's usefull.

-- Thomas