Cisco 2514 does not switch on straight away. It powers on about 1min after switch depressed. it also loses the correct date and time if switched off.
if you issue the command show version
At the bottom written in bold you should the config register settings these nee to be as shown at the bottom of this page
R1#show version
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 2500 Software (C2500-JS-L), Version 12.1(3), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Thu 06-Jul-00 10:02 by cmong
Image text-base: 0x0306F914, data-base: 0x00001000
ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 11.0(10c), SOFTWARE
BOOTFLASH: 3000 Bootstrap Software (IGS-BOOT-R), Version 11.0(10c), RELEASE SOFT
WARE (fc1)
R1 uptime is 1 day, 5 hours, 39 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System image file is "flash:c2500-js-l.121-3"
cisco 2500 (68030) processor (revision N) with 14336K/2048K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 11844920, with hardware revision 00000001
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
SuperLAT software (copyright 1990 by Meridian Technology Corp).
TN3270 Emulation software.
Basic Rate ISDN software, Version 1.1.
1 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
2 Serial network interface(s)
1 ISDN Basic Rate interface(s)
32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
16384K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)
Configuration register is 0x2102
if yours differs the use the these commands to correct it
R1>en
R1#conf t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
R1(config)#config 0x2102
R1(config)#^Z
R1#
Hope this helps
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