HP 1000 E-Series

From: Jay West <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Mon Jun 3 12:17:29 2002

Will wrote...
> smoke or burnt smell, lol, but I'm wondering if its normal for the extend
> light and the rox of lights for the registers yo light up and stay lit up.

I've had my head in my 2100's for so long I'm a bit foggy on the 21MX
machines. But if memory serves, the lights should all come on, but then it
should start a diagnostic from firmware and you should see the rightmost
lights counting up low memory. If you never see this, it indicates a memory
problem most likely. The first thing to check is those ribbon connectors
inside the front that daisychain all the memory cards. I'd suggest taking
them off and cleaning the connectors and edge card traces with a good gold
contact cleaner, then reseating carefully and try again. I seem to recall
that one of my 21mx's took a good 4 minutes or so before it started the
memory test.

I also seem to recall that if the machines had the power fail restart
option, if memory wasn't maintained due to a dead battery or something that
the machine would come up in a strange state and you had to do something
wierd like turn the machine on while holding store or something like that.
If you still have trouble, I'll look up that procedure for you.

Hope this helps.

Jay West
Received on Mon Jun 03 2002 - 12:17:29 BST