[Info-vax] Multia

[MG]

On 11/10/21 05:20, David Goodwin wrote:
> Any chance you remember the symptoms of these problems?
> 
> I was having a play with my one (a 233MHz VX42B) a few days ago
> but it seemed to be having intermittent problems. A blank screen
> plus clicking from the speaker. Sometimes this happened on power-on,
> other times it appeared to happen after leaving it at the ARC/AlphaBIOS
> firmware for a while. Seems like unhappy hardware but I'm not sure
> what or how repairable.

That would actually be a very common problem for me, for both of
the systems I owned and one of which had the same (socketed)
processor as yours.  Your description is quite literally what I
often experienced, which is quite damning.

The clicking is presumably caused by interference or other issues
in the PSU, either due to overheating or 'worn out' components,
common culprits like e.g. faulty capacitors.

(To be clear, for anyone who might be interested, I experienced these
problems after recommended fan upgrades, NVM/TOY battery upgrades
and so forth.)


> (I'd rather play with a real AlphaStation but they seem no easier to
> come by in NZ than the Multias vertical stand)


That's unfortunate, but I hope you become lucky enough in finding one.

  - MG