So the latest Takara Alpha PICMG Industrial PC picked up from eBay last week has a different firmware image to the last one. Apparently it has something to do with VNswitches, but I'm not sure how it would have fitted in to a bigger picture. It looks like at one point it contained three network cards given the errors. Does anyone have any knowledge of this? It looks like I'm going to have to resort to the technique I performed on the last box when I flashed AlphaBIOS which would then not allow a reflash. I had to set a jumper on the CPU card and create a boot floppy with replacement firmware on. Looks like the 'MOS Operator Control' prompt is a dead sheriff rather than a dead sergeant! Regards, Mark. ------ %< ------ %<------ %< ------ %<------ %< ------ %<------ %< ------ %< Kuiper/Charon X3.1 Platform: Takara @ 500MHz Memory: 64MB PCI bus 0 slot 7 fn 0 irq=0000001D : Intel 82378 SIO DEC 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet start failed: device not found DEC 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet start failed: device not found DEC 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet start failed: device not found Copyright 1995-1996 Digital Equipment Corp. MOS Operator Control *? BREAKPOINT DIVERT output from process FLUSH output from process HALT output from process INTERCEPT character is LOGOUT MEMORY statistics RAMLOAD RESTART RELOAD STATUS of process(es) TALK to process TELNET to IP-Address <this terminal type> *memory Number of bytes: Busy = 51560, Idle = 2352, Free = 49553648 * -- http://www.wickensonline.co.uk http://hecnet.eu http://declegacy.org.uk http://retrochallenge.net https://twitter.com/#!/%40urbancamo -- http://www.wickensonline.co.uk http://hecnet.eu http://declegacy.org.uk http://retrochallenge.net https://twitter.com/#!/%40urbancamo