ok, today i fired up the multia, a zillion issues, message "isa table corrupted," the ide disk comes and goes and so the floppy, (my suspect is that they are related to the isa bus corruption message,) the time clock battery is dead, (hopefully it may recharge if I leave it plugged in.) "however" after long pains to remember various settings, changing at least 6 scsi cables, trying a few terminators (active by the way,) it finally booted vms 7.3 and tru64 5.1, but not red hat, linux is a nightmare because the devices names change in the order cabled ;-( on red hat I get a kernel panic, my suspicion is that it is missing something from the ide disk related to the first error, and I'm not going to try arc again, because I'm not feeling in the mood of the hardware fixes to reset it the more time is powered in and the better it goes, now boots on graphics directly and remembers the settings ;-) it was the same with the vax, they look dead, but you leave them plugged in for a while and they resurrect, sooner or later anyhow, this is the situation now, if anybody knows how to fix the isa table corrupted, i can use suggestions cheers, daniel ;-) On 2/10/13, Kari Uusim ki <uusimaki at exdecfinland.org> wrote: Do you have any chance to test booting from a directly connected SCSI CD-ROM or a disk? Kari On 10.2.2013 0:58, Michael Holmes 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