Re: Weirdness with AlphaPC 164: installing SRM firmware, etc.

[Jim Barriault QMG <jbarriau hunch zk3 dec com>]

Secret Asian Man wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Joel Votaw wrote:
> 
> > Will try replacing the battery, though... this thing has been storage
> > for 3 years, so it could certainly be waning.
> 
> I had a PC164 board that died and we come back to life (albeit for a short
> period of time) when I took out the battery and replaced it (but not with
> a new one... I just let the CMOS battery wane out)...
> 
> So I sent that one back and I'm waiting on another one.
> 

I have bought 4 boards from him, one was bad and I received a
replacement in about a week.  I had to flash each one using the fail
safe method with both the srm image and srm update util on a dos
floppy.  Batteries were bad on all of them, but since they stay on all
the time it makes little difference to me.

-Jim

Not speaking for Digital or Compaq.