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

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <7FE9B078-9457-4751-A1FB-911B9787042D at standingwave.org>, Peter Loron
 writes:
>I picked up a SCSI cdrom today at lunch ($11 with a very nice cable),  
>and loaded the updated OS on. That seemed to go ok.
>
>Now when I boot up, it tries to start the analysis system. I get  
>prompted for the terminal type, and take the default of "hp". From  
>there I get repeated messages of they system trying to start and then  
>shutting down the analysis software.

Look out for this message or something similar:

	 "Cannot open backplane device driver"

That indicates that the PCI-bridge chip's SEEPROM is corrupted.

I have a procedure for fixing that.

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