Reviewing The Startup Display; Startup Display - Digital Equipment DEC 3000 500X AXP Owner's Manual

Reviewing the Startup Display

Reviewing the Startup Display
As your system starts up, it performs a series of diagnostic tests.

Startup Display

A display similar to the one in Figure 5–2 appears on the screen
before the console prompt appears. The console prompt is three
greater-than symbols (>>>).
Figure 5–2 Startup Display
Understanding The startup display provides the status of hardware components
the Startup in your system. The two columns provide the following
Display information:
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•
5–6 Starting Up the System
DEC 3000 - M500
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System conducting power up tests.
----------------------------------------------------
Devnam Devstat
-------- ----------
CPU OK KN15-CA - V2.x-S080-IO60 - DECchip 21064 P3.0
ASIC OK
MEM OK 128MB
NVR OK
CXT OK
SCC OK ptr(0) = Present keybd(2) = Present
NI OK Ethernet Address: 08-00-2B-1D-1E-EF , THICK
SCSI OK
ISDN OK
TC0 OK
----------------------------------------------------
System power up OK.
Enter B to boot software from DKA300
>>>
Devnam indicates the device (or component) name
Devstat lists the device status following the initial hardware
startup tests.