i had a problem with mine stuck in arc console, another based on the noname, same thing, for whatever reason all the arc failed around the same time, but i care less of running windoze our days take the power cable off and on the motherboard, or the ram out and in, afterwards it should come up in srm on the serial console, after that set console graphic and it should go back to usual, but don't try to go to arc or it will do the same thing again, if the problem is the same as mine i find the arc thing suspicious because it happened at the same time on a miata, a noname and a multia, probably a calendar bug ? i have not tried to flash the firmware, no time, but from srm everything works, as said except windoze cheers, daniel ;-) On 2/9/13, Michael Holmes <mholmes10 at hotmail.com> wrote: Forgive me if this is off topic, but I was reading about the fixes to the VAXStation 4000 regarding chips. I bought a multia several years back and I think it sucommed to being moved to and from Germany and the States too many times. I had it booting as a satelite off a DEC 3000 just fine, until this last move. I thought the battery had died and replaced it. (dead battery prevents the bios from coming up) I get the SRM console and i'd get MOP load message on the DEC 3000 but the MULTIA just hangs after message about bootstrapping. I heard something about an I/O chip that can go bad on the MB and was wondering if anyone had any ideas that could be used to fix the MULTIA. thanks Mike