Hi Erik, I just happen to have mine out and took a quick video of boot up. Mine does not have a floppy drive or hard drive (I don't have a caddy) so it boots pretty quickly to the "ok" prompt but you can see the LCD display and when the LCD comes up.
Here's a quick video. https://vintagecomputer.ca/files/Tadpole/Ultrabook-boot.mp4 On another note: Still hoping to find an Ultrabook hard drive caddy if anyone has a spare or even internal pictures to see if it has any smarts or if it's just an EIDE drive that goes pin-for-pin to the internal 40 pin SCSI-5 connector. I've been checking eBay for years now :( Hope this helps, Santo On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 2:19 PM erik--- via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Did some experiments in removing/swapping NVRAMs and none of my UltraBooks > is reaching the OpenFirmware or even turning on the backlight/LCD, so I > have no way of trying to read the NVRAM contents from there :-( > > Symptoms (i.e. behaviour of the LCD display) of the UltraBooks differ with > contents of NVRAM or if there is no NVRAM at all. So without some > known-valid NVRAM contents I fear I am lost :-( > > Symtpoms I see: Power symbols coming up always then (a) only tock-tock > from speaker (b) blank, only the inverse A flashing several times, later a > single time again and then blank forever (c) heart beat and speaker > flashing, later the inverse A coming on as well. > > Can anyone out there at least tell me what their LCDis showing during > startup? > > I will archive the contents of the NVRAMs as they are now although they > are probably not of much use... >
