HP 712/100 problem

I am a newbie to HP world. Just bought a
HP 712/100. I connected it with a standard PC keyboard & mouse, 17" HP Ultra 1280 monitor.
I didn't see anything on the screen, and the power led flashs at about twice a second.
BTW, I used a 3.2G quantum internal SCSI drive, no floppy.

I got linux runing on sparc & Dec machines, realy want to explore another platform.
Please help me.

Thanks,

zhao

Do you have a wrong DATE on your machine !!

Don't worry about the long time of having a bloack screen ! Two point have to be considered.
(1) On my 720/50 it takes near one minute, before the monitor began to show the three basic colors red/green/blue as test, before text is comming.
On reason for such a long time is the memory test....

(2) If your machine is configured using the serial console and if it does not automatic boot, then you will never see any output on the screen.
For this connect a terminal (emulation) like `minicom' or 'hyper terminal'
to the first serial port with 9600,8,n,1 and wait, if there is coming an output,
but this can also take up to one minute...

I hope this helps
Christoph

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