Jay
If your E-series take 4 minutes to come up, you have power supply issues!
A E-series with 512K words should power up, test CPU and all memory,
then be 'ready' in under 40 seconds.
PS, I have the E-series machine you sent up and running! The 2102E and
256K hi-perf memory system is working flawlessly. If we can find this
box a replacement front pannel it will be a complete working machine.
Jay West wrote:
>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
>
>
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