[geeks] Sun 3/50 startup non-progress

[Barry Keeney]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2014, JP Hindin wrote:

> Just thought I'd throw this out there in case anyone had some suggestions.
>
> I recently picked up a 3/50 (from a kindly listmember) and on power-on I
> get all of the eight Diag LEDs come on solid, and remain on, rather than
> cycling through like it does on my other Suns as it boots.
>
> I didn't see anything on the serial console after waiting perhaps 60
> seconds.
>
> Is this a vaguely fixable failure state?

   Doesn't look good, it took me a bit to find a list of the
leds:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~alanb/faq/Sun-Hardware-3.faq

    It's near the end....

    I'll have to double check my sun FEH to make sure this
is correct, it looks right...

Barry Keeney
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