[rescue] Time to give up?

[Dave McGuire]

  If it's really the ROM that's different, I could burn you a copy of
a "regular" one"  No mad-scientist crap about it...eprom programmers
are all over the place.

      -Dave McGuire

On June 13, John Eo wrote:
> Okay, first of all, thanks for all the suggestions on fixing up my 
> SS5 in Kodak Digital Processor disguise.
> 
> Unfortunately, my coworker has tried unplugging EVERYTHING in his 
> machine and then booting, with no success.  It appears that the 
> reason he has not been able to bring up OpenBoot is, well, because 
> it might lack OpenBoot in the firmware.  He told me that when he 
> turns it on with HDD removed, he gets something like "Initializing 
> FBV 2.1..." and then it gets stuck there.  I've never seen 
> OpenBoot prompt (I did say I was new at this), but I'm guessing 
> that ain't it.
> 
> So, if my machine has indeed been brainwashed by our friends at 
> Kodak, do I have any option left other than chucking the board and 
> selling its organs in the Black Market?  I don't suppose the 
> firmware can be reprogrammed without a decent mad-scientist lab (I 
> don't got one)?  This is a major disappointment because I've 
> already commited my lunch money for this month to memory, HDD, and 
> input devices.
> 
> I suppose I could buy a SS5 motherboard, but if I hadn't spent the 
> money already maybe I could've waited and saved up for an Ultra 1.
> 
> So is it time to give up?
> 
> John 
> 
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