Problems with AlphaServer 800 console

From: John H. Reinhardt (johnhreinhardt_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/04/04

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    Hello everyone,

        I have recently come into possesion of a used AlphaServer 800.
    It's clean and, except for missing the top door which would cover the
    CD/floppy/control buttons, in very good shape. My problem is this -
    after I hook up a keyboard, mouse and monitor and power the system on,
    I don't get any console output. I get one beep (which, according to
    the user guide is normal), the video works because I get the S3Trio
    startup screen and I get the BIO startup but then the screen goes blue
    and the sursor sits in the upper left corner blinking at me. The disk
    drives spin up but don't attempt to boot (no surprise, they're fresh
    drives I installed). My thoughts are that the console variable is set
    to serial but I've hit return and used the keyboard while it was
    booting and it didn't re-direct the output to the graphics ports. Is
    there anything else I can do? I've ordered a cable to connect to the
    serial console (it's an MMJ) but it won't be here for 3 days or so and
    I'm looking for something I can do in the meantime.

      Thanks to all.

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