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I have two of these IMD's here in front of me. One is
out of a 2500, and the other is out of a 3000. They both have a single
34 pin (with one pin blocked out) ribbon cable. I am hoping that the
20pin and 14pin headers that you found are directly side by side,
making one 34pin header. If this is the case, then you should have no
trouble.


Now THAT is odd. The connectors on mine are side-by-side, all right, but
laterally, not longitudinally as in your case, so it looks as if it's
only meant to take a DIL20 or a DIL14 IDC header:

[1::::::::20] P3

[14:::::1] P4

Pin 19 is the polariser for P3, and Pin 12 the polariser for P4. Quite a
different thing to what you have there.



The LCD will be lit and functioning as long as the power cable is
plugged in...even with the system powered down. During boot up, it will
echo all of the posting steps (CPU initialization, memory test, etc.)
even before the display is initialized. After bootup it will provide
you with quick easy access to any error messages incurred during boot
(the arrow keys will navigate through the list). During normal
operation, you can install the Integrated Management Display Utility,
from the ProLiant Support Pack, and setup a custom default display of
your choice. My 3000's are setup to display this information during
normal running:

Line 1) System Name
Line 2) System Time
Line 3) CPU Usage (a bar graph and %)
Line 4) Main Menu

Of course there are many other options. You may wish to display a graph
of memory usage, for example.


Hoooweeee I wanna play with that. I just scored a Proliant 7000 with the
Xeon 400MHz motherboard off ebay for $117 an hour ago, which I'm going
to pick up tomorrow afternoon - it already has one of these as standard.
If the display does all this, I can understand the value of it. Who
wants to fart around with hpasm when you've got it in silicon? I just
wish the 5000R I started off with two weeks ago had this feature. Be
damned handy to see how busy the gear is just by looking at the front
panel.


If the server experience a catastrophic failure, you will get a readout
of what happened (as long as the power cord is plugged in and hot)
enabling you to take action before you power up the system again.


This is my first foray into playing with enterprise-grade gear, no
matter how old it is. I think I can get to like this.


Just remove the power cord, plug the display into the header, and
reinsert the power cord. If you immediately see the backlight and the
words "Compaq ProLiant 1600", then the ripping has begun!

Let me know if you need of of my spare IMD's...I'm sure we can work
something out better than ebay's shipping charges.

Well mine's a 266MHz Pentium II Proliant 1200 with the E35 BIOS, not a
1600, so I don't know if this bit is the same. Besides, you'd better be
able to beat AUD10 to ship to Sydney