My 500/25 also flashes for a while on power up. I think the best way to
tell if there's anything wrong is to unplug the keyboard, and plug a
serial terminal into port A (9600,N,8,1 (I think)) 

In anycase, there is defintly 8 meg on board, and it's probably not
too likely to go bad as the machines are really that old.

	-paul
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	Paul Evans  
	paule@martex.gen.oh.us _ pevans@cleindians.com

On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, ron joseph wrote:

> i bought a personal decstation/25 with keyboard and mouse, but no 
> monitor. it has a 470 mb scsi hdd, two empty turbochannel slots, and 
> four empty memory slots. when i plug it in with keyboard and mouse, the 
> hdd spins up, but the green LED on the front flashes eternally. i 
> figured this was a bad thing, so i tried plugging my roommate's rgb ibm 
> workstation monitor into it and did not see anything on the screen. is 
> everything fine? does it not have any memory or a video card? is the 
> scsi drive dead?
> 
> i am really interested in getting this thing working, so any help is 
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> ron joseph
> josephr@dvsweb.com
>