[geeks] HP Visualize B1000 (A4985A)

[Mouse]

I've got an HP A4985A, a Visualize B1000 machine.  This is the machine
whose video led me to start the "Not-quite DVI video?" thread back on
2025-10-27.  The case says it's a PA-RISC machine, which actually is my
major reason for wanting to get it working.

I recently found an HP 1253-0635, which has that not-quite-DVI
connector (EVC, apparently, it's called) on one side and a DE-15
("VGA") on the other.  So I dragged out the machine again and tried it.

With the adapter on the video and a 1280x1024 ViewSonic flatscreen
which appears to work fine for your typical peecee BIOS on the other
end of the VGA cable, both serial ports wired up to another machine,
and a USB keyboard connected (I see nothing else I recognize as a
possible keyboard connector), I turned it on.  The fans spun up.  After
a while the fan RPMs started varying and then after a while longer the
fans, as far as I can tell, stopped entirely.  At no point did I see
video on the monitor or anything on either serial port.  (I'm assuming
they're wired like peecee DE9 serial ports, since they're DE9s.)  The
other machine was listening at 9600, but I didn't see any baud barf
either.

Any idea what's wrong?  Just my expectations, or should I have seen
something?  I can retry and specify exactly how long I wait, if that
would help, but I'd guess I gave it at least five minutes.

In passing, I recently (on a different thread - the rescue@ thread
"SPARCstation 1 boot woes") mentioned I tried to find something on
archive.org and failed.  Someone on the list then told me exactly where
to find it on archive.org.  Is there some document somewhere writing up
how to get useful results out of them?  I'd love to be able to coax
useful things out of them without needing to ask the (emininently
helpful!) people on the lists here....

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