[SunRescue] SS20 SX problem

[Andreas Spångberg]

Sorry about the duplicated emails,

It's a 501-2481, but the funny thing is that I
managed to get it working today. I replaced all
the DIMMs with a set from an ultra 1, of course I
thought my sticks were messy then. But what actually
made it to work was that I hadn't put the top back
on, because when I put back the original sticks it
continued to work until I screwed the top back on.

I guess the foam rubber on the top somehow messes
up my memory or are involved at least. I run it
without the screws tightened at the moment, which
works at least...

On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Les wrote:

> There was a fairly high availability of 4MB VSIMMs for the SS10SX
> which work poorly (if at all) in the SS20. I'd check the part number
> on the chip and post it here. Someone could look in their FEH &
> tell you if you got SC***ED.
> Seller would not happen to have been supersellers?
> They were doing that a lot (or so I hear).
> 
> Les
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Spngberg" <pt98asp at student.hk-r.se>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:21 PM
> Subject: [SunRescue] SS20 SX problem
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just bought a 4MB VSIMM from ebay for my
> > sparcstation 20 and I'm having quite strange
> > problem installing it.
> >
> > When I pop it in and powers on the machine
> > I get a picture on my 20D10 with the new SX
> > graphics blob, but the machine seems to hang
> > on the Memory test phase. I turned it off and
> > powered it on again and this time the machine
> > didn't start at all. I suspected that perhaps
> > I had some DIMMS in wrong slots and rearranged
> > them according to the 10SX&20 manual found
> > on docs.sun.com but to no avail.
> >
> > I suspect that the VSIMM is broken, but thought
> > I'd ask you guys before I give the ebay seller
> > negative feedback.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >   Andreas Spngberg
> >
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