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Re: Low--High--High--High--Low--Low Boot Tone & Hippo VL+

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From: David Longley
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 00:00
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           David@longley.demon.co.uk "David Longley" writes:

> The VL+ "Hippo" board made by OCTEK (Ocean) produces the following sequence
> of tones on boot up:
> 
> Low--High--High--High--Low--Low  Al are long tones with gaps. 
> 
> No video display - Some pushing or proding will sometimes bring it back
> to life - Does anyone know what this sequence means? I've tried a VLB
> card (Cirrus Logic 5428) and an ISA Tseng Labs ET4000. Thought it might
> be a VL Slot problem at one time as first time the Tseng went in, it
> booted. Now the Tseng produces he same result.
> 
> Has anyone got a manual for the Ocean (Octek) "Hippo" VL+ board?
> -- 
> David Longley
> 
If someone could give me a list of what the following jumpers are, it
may help track down the problem:

JP3     (and the one next to it - can't see the number)
JP4-5    ok - DX33/66 vs DX25/DX50
JP6,8,9  ok - DX/DX2 SX 467 select

JP13,14,15 ??
JP16 ?

JP7 ?
JP10 ?

BATTERY 3 PINS ?

apart from the BIOS chips, there's a socketed 

                  PALCE 16V8H-15PC/4 (U4)
                  337PZMN J
                  PAL093-404 

20 pin, DIL chip 

also a soldered in

 KMI SC425AP8  (U11)
      9338
      E6092     next to a 14.318 mhz cyrstal

     HM6818P
      9331 C38E1 (U18)

 TOSHIBA 9323W (U20)
 TC4069UBP


  LM339N (U19)

The rest seem to be LS series chips.


Apart from the jumpers, can anyone identify any of the above as being
critical to the RTC problem. Also suggest what the tones mean as the
system will not start up at all.

-- 
David Longley
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From: David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Low--High--High--High--Low--Low Boot Tone & Hippo VL+
Date: 1996/02/08
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