My PWS 600 au has recently started to switch itself back into AlphaBIOS 
mode if powered off for very long, and now I can't get it back into SRM.

I _think_ that a new battery is in order and might cure it, but can 
anyone confirm that a dead battery can be the cause of this?

-- 
Paul Sture

Paul Sture wrote:
> My PWS 600 au has recently started to switch itself back into AlphaBIOS 
> mode if powered off for very long, and now I can't get it back into SRM.
> 
> I _think_ that a new battery is in order and might cure it, but can 
> anyone confirm that a dead battery can be the cause of this?

I have a 433au with the same phenonomen.

BIOS, CMOS, advanced, change OS to VMS, save, save, power cycle
and it runs again (after memory).

Arne

Paul Sture wrote:
> My PWS 600 au has recently started to switch itself back into AlphaBIOS 
> mode if powered off for very long, and now I can't get it back into SRM.
> 
> I _think_ that a new battery is in order and might cure it, but can 
> anyone confirm that a dead battery can be the cause of this?

   That's a typical and usual symptom of a dead battery, yes -- 
arguably, the SRM and the AlphaBIOS/ARC and the no-setting or 
lost-setting code should have been three separate codes.  You should 
also find that other console-level settings are also lost, as well as 
the time, etc., though you can manually select the necessary settings 
and start up SRM, etc.

me too! :-)

that is my 433au would go into alphabios on power on until I replaced
the battery (which is a common model of battery). It's been fine since.

In article <1162285028.192414.67990@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>,
 "Ian Miller" <ijm@uk2.net> wrote:

> me too! :-)
> 
> that is my 433au would go into alphabios on power on until I replaced
> the battery (which is a common model of battery). It's been fine since.

Thanks for the confirmation.

-- 
Paul Sture