Motorola manual DTroubleshooting the MVME187 Solving Startup Problems

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DTroubleshooting the MVME187:

DTroubleshooting the MVME187:

Solving Startup Problems

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Try these simple troubleshooting steps before calling for help or sending your CPU board back for repair.

Some of the procedures will return the board to the factory debugger environment. (The board was tested under these conditions before it left the factory.)

Selftest may not run in all user-customized environments.

Table D-1. Troubleshooting Steps

Condition

Possible

 

Try This:

Problem

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I. Nothing

A. If the RUN or

1.

Make sure the system is plugged in.

works, no

+12V LED is not

2.

Check that the board is securely installed in its

display on the

lit, the board

 

backplane or chassis.

terminal.

may not be

3.

Check that all necessary cables are connected to

 

getting correct

 

 

the board, per this manual.

 

power.

 

 

4.

Check for compliance with System

 

 

 

 

 

Considerations, in Chapter 3.

 

 

5.

Review the Installation and Startup procedures,

 

 

 

in Chapter 3. The step-by-step powerup routine

 

 

 

for your board is on page 3-17. Try it.

 

 

 

 

 

B. If the LEDs

1.

The CPU board should be in the Þrst (leftmost)

 

are lit, the board

 

slot if it is to be the system controller.

 

may be in the

2.

The Òsystem controllerÓ function requires that

 

wrong slot.

 

header J2 be set properly. See Chapter 3.

 

 

 

 

C. The system

ConÞgure the system console terminal according to

 

console

the instructions in Chapter 3.

 

terminal may be

 

 

 

conÞgured

 

 

 

wrong.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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