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Conference siog::year2000

Title:	Year 2000

Moderator:	SIOG::SYSTEM

Created:	Mon Dec 09 1996
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	23
Total number of notes:	70

22.0. "Firmware" by WOTVAX::model60.lzo.dec.com::hiltong ([email protected]) Mon Jun 02 1997 15:20

Is there any issues regarding firmware and Y2k? 

Specifically my customer has a number of AlphaServer 2100a systems, 
and will be running UNIX 4.0d when released. There Y2k people are 
asking them to make sure the firmware is y2k compliant!

Any 'official' info on this?

Greg

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
22.1	Try the Sable Conference, or Sable PM	XDELTA::HOFFMAN	Steve, OpenVMS Engineering	`Tue Jun 03 1997 23:49`	5
	I think you'll want to contact the Sable engineers more directly, via the MVBLAB::SABLE conference, or you'll want to contact the Sable product manager.
22.2	?	SIOG::FITZPATRICK		`Wed Jun 04 1997 18:58`	14
	>>Specifically my customer has a number of AlphaServer 2100a systems, >>and will be running UNIX 4.0d when released. There Y2k people are >>asking them to make sure the firmware is y2k compliant! Am I missing something here or does the fact that all of Digital's VAX & Alpha (& more!) processors are Year 2000 ready answer this ? From the www.digital.com/year2000 web page.... All of DIGITAL's Alpha, Intel, VAX, and MIPS-based computer systems hardware is Year 2000 Ready now. All of the software that DIGITAL actively markets as well as all network, components, storage, and systems option hardware will be Year 2000 Ready by the end of 1997.
22.3	Celebris	NNTPD::"[email protected]"	Paolo Cattolico	`Wed Jun 04 1997 19:16`	23
	Just to let you know.... Take a Digital PC: Celebris XL 5I66 DP, Phoenix Bios 4.04. Set date/time to 12/31/99, 23:58. Turn it off. wait 3 minutes. Turn it on. It will not boot anymore. Instead, whenever you try to turn it on, it will turn off automatically after 3-4 seconds. For fixing the problem, probably due to invalid CMOS checksum, I had to open the PC box and do an HW reset of CMOS. I tried first to strongly believe in our statements on the WWW, but it was not enough.......:-) Paolo Cattolico Euopean Tech Support Valbonne, France [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]