Starting Your System - HPE AlphaServer 300 User Manual

Starting Your System

1. Turn on the system unit power, monitor power, and any external devices. Figure 2-5
shows the location of the system unit power button.
Figure 2-5 Starting Your System
2. If necessary, adjust the monitor contrast and brightness to obtain a readable screen
display. (Refer to the information supplied with your monitor for further instructions.)
3. Allow your system to complete any power-on self-tests and device initialization
messages. During initialization, you will see information scroll by quickly on the
screen. (This takes approximately 1 minute.)
4. If you are booting Digital UNIX or OpenVMS, the system halts and displays the SRM
console prompt (>>>). You can now boot the operating system using the boot
command. (See boot command in the SRM console section of Chapter 3.) If the
environment variable auto_action is set to boot, the system will boot automatically
without using a boot command. (See the SRM environment variables section of
Chapter 3 for more information.)
5. If you are booting Windows NT, the system normally halts and displays the ARC
console Boot Menu. You can now boot the system by selecting Boot Windows NT
menu choice. (See the ARC console section of Chapter 3 for more information on the
Boot Menu.) If autoboot is enabled, the system will boot automatically without using
the menu. (See Setup Autoboot in the ARC console section of Chapter 3 for more
information on setting autoboot and other system parameters.
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