[time-nuts] [OT] Help needed with HP 16700A

Peter Loron peterl at standingwave.org
Wed Aug 5 01:17:31 UTC 2009


So far the disk is holding up. I may do the CF conversion if I can  
ever get the rest of the the system working.

I re-seated the cables to the IO board, but the results are the same.  
I've tried a different keyboard and mouse.

-Pete

On Aug 4, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <0BBF1879-97BF-460F-B7E3-99F4A8006CB0 at standingwave.org>,  
> Peter Loron
> writes:
>> I have no idea what the hostname is. Yeah, I think the next step is  
>> to
>> try and reload the OS. If that still doesn't fix it, then I may need
>> to start troubleshooting the PS2 ports...the keyboard isn't  
>> responding
>> as it should when the LA starts up, and a kb and mouse need to be
>> present for the LA to come up properly as I understand.
>
> If they keyboard/mouse is not found, the X11-server does not start.
>
> Check the ribbon-cable that connects the PS/2 connectors to the PCB
> inside, as far as I know, you have to unplug that to change the
> harddisk out, and they may simply have forgotten to put it back in.
>
> BTW: beware that the internal SCSI-disk is getting old.  I found
> the last SCSI-ATA converter in Denmark by luck, and gave mine a CF
> card instead.
>
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