On 5/3/19 3:22 PM, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote:
> Anyone know much about early MIPS workstations? I'm trying to get a MIPS
> RS2030 to boot, without much luck so far. It
> goes through the selftest but stops with the internal LED display at "5"
> accompanied by a continuous beep.
>
> Known problems:
>
> - The Dallas DS1287 battery is flat; I can hack a 3V lithium onto that. I
> assume it should still work to some extent
> even if the contents are lost?
>
> - The RAM is highly suspect. I think it needs a minimum of 8MB to start up.
> It has a good complement of SIPPs, but
> some of them are definitely non-original and are actually 30-pin SIMMs that
> somebody has done a rubbish job of soldering
> short stiff wires onto.
>
> So I'd like to know what the RAM spec really is, whether I need to reprogram
> the Dallas chip (and if so what goes
> where), and what the diagnostic numbers on the internal LED mean. Anyone?
>
http://www.geekdot.com/the-mips-rs2030/
someone else had the same problem in the comments
