DECsystem 5900 Installation Guide

This document is the DECsystem 5900 Installation Guide, published by Digital Equipment Corporation in December 1991.

It is intended for Digital services personnel or self-maintenance customers and outlines the step-by-step process for installing the DECsystem 5900 after it has been delivered to the computer room.

The guide covers:

1. Unpacking and Positioning: Instructions for removing packaging, positioning the system on its skid, removing hold-down brackets, adjusting leveling feet, and safely rolling the heavy system into its final location.
2. Assembling System Skirts: Detailed steps for attaching the front, side, and rear skirt components to the system frame.
3. Connecting External Cables: Guidance on connecting power, console, and Ethernet cables from the power controller and CPU drawer, ensuring they pass through the rear skirt opening.
4. Powering Up the System: How to configure the power controller (checking cable, circuit breaker, fuse, and Remote/Local switch setting) and ensuring mass storage and CPU drawer switches are turned on.
5. Setting the Console Terminal: Verifying console terminal communication settings (9600 baud, 8 bit, no parity, 1 stop bit).
6. Removing Blank Media: Instructions to remove shipping protectors from tape drives before operation.
7. Running Power-Up Self-Tests: Explains the automatic self-test process, expected duration, and how to interpret non-problem messages (e.g., for non-existent keyboard/pointer). It also notes that power-up tests do not fully verify mass storage devices, requiring extended tests.
8. Resolving Problems: Directs users to the DECsystem 5900 Service Guide for extended testing, troubleshooting procedures, and resolving issues.

Basic tools like scissors, screwdrivers, wrenches, and an Allen wrench are required for the installation.