NBX SS3 won't boot

[dave2msp]

Working on a surplus SS3 (V5000) chassis. Watching the terminal screen, the system finds both hard drives and reads the first 9 files on each, then reports "file not found" and halts at the BNCP> prompt.

Any ideas on what the next step might be? Thanks in advance.

Boot Log:
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NBX750 Version V1.2.0 7/30/2002


Initializing interrupts
Loaded Host Bridge
LoadED pci bus1 control
Loaded pci-pci bridge
Jumping to ram
Running from ram
Loaded pci-isa
Loaded IDE controller
Loaded USB controller
Loaded SMB controller
Loaded AC97 controller
Loaded AGP controller
bus speed chan
Slot 0: 256M Installed
Slot 1: 128M Installed
Slot 2: 0M Installed
Initializing heap
Initializing Ethernet Devices
Configured PCI Ethernet Device 8
Configured PCI Ethernet Device 9
AC97 reset removed and enabled
CODEC Ready
Secondary CODEC Not Ready
Spread Spectrum not enabled
Entering command loop

Initializing Timers

RTC and CMOS RAM are valid
Starting Countdown

.....
EISA IRQ7-0 trigger: 00
EISA IRQ15-8 trigger: 0c
Interrupt Status:
IRQ0: Enabled; Count = 619
IRQ1: Disabled; Count = 0
IRQ3: Enabled; Count = 0
IRQ4: Enabled; Count = 0
IRQ5: Disabled; Count = 0
IRQ6: Disabled; Count = 0
IRQ7: Disabled; Count = 0
IRQ8: Disabled; Count = 0
IRQ9: Disabled; Count = 0
IRQ10: Disabled; Count = 0
IRQ11: Disabled; Count = 0
IRQ12: Disabled; Count = 0
IRQ13: Disabled; Count = 0
IRQ14: Disabled; Count = 0
IRQ15: Disabled; Count = 0
Trying Disk 0

Retrieval of Hard Disk Parameters for drive #0 complete.

Hard Disk #0 Support DMA
Hard Disk #0 Support LBA
Number of addressable sectors in LBA mode: 39102336
Buffer malloc: 00100228
Calling Read Sector
BOOTNBX .VER 6 bytes; Start Cluster: 2
HTFSOK .DAT 23 bytes; Start Cluster: 3
NBXVER .CFG 6 bytes; Start Cluster: 4
NBXSYS .CFG 225 bytes; Start Cluster: 84
BOOTNBX .SAV 522181 bytes; Start Cluster: 6
BOOTNBX .SYS 522181 bytes; Start Cluster: 67
NCPFLASH.SAV 131072 bytes; Start Cluster: 68
NBXSYS .CFO 231 bytes; Start Cluster: 5
NCPFLASH.BIN 131072 bytes; Start Cluster: 149
File Not Found
Trying Disk 1

Retrieval of Hard Disk Parameters for drive #1 complete.

Hard Disk #1 Support DMA
Hard Disk #1 Support LBA
Number of addressable sectors in LBA mode: 39102336
Buffer malloc: 00117670
Calling Read Sector
BOOTNBX .VER 6 bytes; Start Cluster: 2
HTFSOK .DAT 23 bytes; Start Cluster: 3
NBXVER .CFG 6 bytes; Start Cluster: 4
NBXSYS .CFG 225 bytes; Start Cluster: 84
BOOTNBX .SAV 522181 bytes; Start Cluster: 6
BOOTNBX .SYS 522181 bytes; Start Cluster: 67
NCPFLASH.SAV 131072 bytes; Start Cluster: 68
NBXSYS .CFO 231 bytes; Start Cluster: 5
NCPFLASH.BIN 131072 bytes; Start Cluster: 149
File Not Found
BNCP>

 

[dave2msp]

Update - in case anyone actually visits this forum :

It appears as though the next file in line (from watching an NBX100 boot, anyway) might be HTFSOK.DAT .

Does that clue help anyone diagnose the reason why this 3com NBX SS3 / V5000 won't boot?

thanks in advance,
Dave