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Cubix Hardware Y2K
Information
Upgrade Options
Upgrade options for
Hardware products that are NOT Year 2000 Compliant.
- Return board to Cubix for
upgrade - $150.00 per board
Contact Cubix Customer Service or your Authorized Reseller for a Return Authorization
number. Customer is responsible for freight both ways.
- Exchange (advance
shipment) for like board - $250.00 per board
Advance shipment exchanges are available for most PCB models. Single shipment quantities
may be limited based on availability of stock. Contact Cubix Customer Service or your
Cubix Authorized Reseller for details. Only available for North America (USA and Canada).
Customer is responsible for freight both ways.
- Trade-in for new Cubix
Hardware - Call for pricing
Cubix Corporation wants to give you $$$ for trade-in on older Cubix hardware
towards the purchase of new Cubix Hardware. Get Year 2000 Compliance by trading older
hardware in for new hardware! Contact Cubix Corporation or your Cubix Authorized Reseller
for details.
Cubix Systems
The following Cubix System
enclosures have no date dependencies.
System 1000 and System 1010 Cabinets
ERS/FT2, ERS/FT, and ERS2 Systems
ERS and Resource Systems
Safestor Drive Enclosures
Density System
(Note: all Density processor boards are Y2K compliant).
The processor boards
installed in Cubix Systems do have date dependencies.
Y2K
compliance must be determined for each individual processor board installed in a Cubix System.
Cubix
Processor Boards
The following
boards are Y2K Compliant.
ERS/FT System Processor Boards:
All Triton TE
& TS Series Boards (Engine & Server)
All Triton TX
Series Boards (Pentium MMX)
All DP
(Dual-SMP Processor) Series
Density System Processor Boards:
All Processor boards for Density Systems
QL Series
Boards (Diskless workstation products)
The QL boards do support
dates past the year 2000. The QL boards will not "rollover unattended" to the
year 2000 properly.
There are 3 clocks on the QLs. The RTC, BIOS, and Operating System clocks. The RTC clock
is not backed-up by battery. All three clocks are set each time a user logs in to a Novell
Server. The clock is set from the Novell Server that the user is logging into. It does not
matter which system the QL is physically installed in.
When the date changes from Dec 31, 1999 to 01/01/2000, and a user is logged in to a Novell
Server on a QL board, then the RTC and BIOS clocks will go to 01/01/1900. The Operating
System Clock will change to 01/01/2000. As soon as the user executes a login command all 3
clocks will be set to valid year 2000 dates. It is at execution of the login command, that
the clock is set on QLs. It is not necessary to reset the QL board. Y2K programs executed
on QL boards fail the "unattended rollover test". (At least that is what some of
the programs call this feature.) All of the other Y2K tests pass OK.
Note: The QL boards are legacy products, and were never updated to support operating
systems newer than Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.22, with a Netware 3.12 or 4.11 file server.
(Win95 is not supported on QLs.) Due to this, most applications running on QL boards that
read time/date utilize the DOS clock and will operate OK even immediately after the year
2000 date changeover. Any applications which read the RTC or BIOS clock will fail
immediately after the rollover, but will operate properly after Novell login command is
executed in the new year.
Since the QL clocks are always set at login, the Netware Server that the QLs are being
logged into must be Year 2000 compliant.
QL
products with 286 or older processors:
QL Models 2286, 2200, 2210, 2220, 2201, 1004, 1044,
1002, 1001, and Quicklink are not and cannot be made Y2K
compliant.
How to
determine if a Cubix
Processor Board is Year 2000 Compliant.
(1) The
Easy Way - AMI Bios Dates
Reset the processor and observe the AMIBIOS message on
the initial screen during the boot process (you can pause the screen by pressing the
"Pause" key). All BC/DP/Sxxx Series boards will display a message with this
format:
AMIBIOS (c) 199x American Megatrends Inc.
(c)Cubix Corporation
Carson City, NV
BCxxxx (Processor Class)
(mm/dd/yy)
If your BIOS information matches the
information below, then the board is year 2000 compliant.
If the board is not listed below, use method number 2 or 3 below.
Bios
Year
(x) |
BC Series
(xxxx) |
Processor Class
(Processor Class) |
Bios Date
(mm/dd/yy) |
| 6 |
4035 |
40486 |
07/09/97 or higher |
| 4 |
5090/5120
& 5120LE |
Pentium |
11/18/96
or higher |
| 4 |
5166F |
Pentium |
12/12/96
or higher |
| 2 |
4045 |
40846 |
02/16/98
or higher |
| 4 |
5120/5150E |
Pentium |
12/12/96
or higher |
| 6 |
5166/5200TE |
Pentium |
any date |
| 6 |
5166/5200TS |
Pentium |
any date |
(2) Another
Easy Way - Software Test
Go to the web sites
listed below, and download their software to determine if a computer is Year 2000
compliant.
Ontrack Y2K Advisor
Software:
http://www.ontrack.com/op/op_6.asp
NSTL's YMARK2000:
http://www.nstl.com/html/nstl_ymark2000.html
(3) The
Hard(ware) way.
There are
numerous circuit boards, and revisions for every model CPU manufactured by Cubix
Corporation. To determine whether the processor board you have is compliant, you must get
the board PWB number, PCB assembly number and revision of each board.
The information
is printed on the circuit board:
The PWB number
will be printed on the bottom or the board, in green, and will start with the letter C.
The PCB Assembly
number will start with the letter A followed by four numbers, and is usually printed in
white on the board end (opposite the end bracket).
The revision
number will follow the board number, and will be a single letter, or a letter, a period
and a number.
Once you have
the numbers and revision, use the tables below to find the correct table.
By Model Number
Board Identifier By End Bracket
Note: All
Sxxx based products are Triton or DP Series boards.
By PWB number
or PCB Assembly Number
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