Configuring Your System
6-20 AlphaServer 1000A Rackmount Owner’s Guide
The "View or Edit Details" ECU option is used to change user-selectable settings or to
change the resources allocated for these functions (IRQs, DMA channels, I/O ports,
and so on).
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Your system supports two EISA option slots. Your ECU display may show
more than two slots, but only the first two are valid.
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5.
Save your configuration.
The "Save and Exit" ECU option saves your configuration information to the system's
nonvolatile memory.
6.
Return to the SRM console (Digital UNIX and OpenVMS Alpha systems only) and
restart the system.
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For systems running Windows NT:
Remove the ECU diskette from the diskette drive and boot the operating system.
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For systems running Digital UNIX or OpenVMS Alpha:
To return to the SRM console, press the Reset switch on your system unit, or turn
the system off, then back on. Alternatively, you can use the following procedure:
a.
From the Boot menu, select the Supplementary menu.
b.
From the Supplementary menu, select the "Set up the system" menu.
c.
From the Setup menu, select "Switch to OpenVMS Alpha or Digital UNIX
console." This allows you to select your operating system console.
d.
Select your operating system, then press enter on "Setup menu."
e.
When the message "Power-cycle the system to implement the change" is
displayed, press the Reset button. (Do not press the On/Off switch.) Once
the console firmware is loaded and device drivers are initialized, you can
boot the operating system.
