[geeks] Tru64 licensing/availability...

[Eric Dittman]

> > > I'd have to disagree with you on this. On my system, that was
> > > impossible, barfing something like "this is not supported on this
> > > system" on me.
> > 
> > You've got the first PWS xxxa I've heard of that wouldn't allow
> > switching.  Like I said, I've got two "a" systems that I already
> > switched, and I know of several others.  None of them had this
> > problem.  Have you tried updating to the latest firmware?  If
> > so, do you have a mixed system (new mainboard with old PCI board)?
> 
> It's a PWS433a, with two 2GB Digital-firmware drives, 256MB RAM and
> Powerstorm 4D50T (Wildcat cateyes?) graphics card. And, oh, the
> SCSI-controller is on a seperate card.
> I'll revert this baby back to ARC so I can look up the exact message.
> (And yes, I've updated to the latest firmware)

It may be the Powerstorm card.  I've got an NT-only (as far as I
know) Powerstorm video card I got from somewhere.  The system just
beeps when the card is installed with SRM active.  When I remove
the card the system comes up.
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Eric Dittman
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