[rescue] Sparc20 help?

Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. rescue at hawkmountain.net
Thu Feb 20 09:09:51 CST 2003


Check the pins of the cpu module... make sure non got damaged when installing
the module (by you or a previous owner).

-- Curt

>Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:26:35 -0500
>From: Mike Johnson <mike at enoch.org>
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] Sparc20 help?
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>Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. [rescue at hawkmountain.net] wrote:
>> With the keyboard and monitor connected, power on the computer
>> while holding the stop and 'N' keys simultainously until you see
>> video or your fingers go numb :-)
>> 
>> Maybe some setting in the NVRAM has you hosed.
>
>No joy. :(  I'll try again when I'm not so tired as I was last night, 
>but I held the keys down for a minute or so (the keyboard eventually 
>gave a chirp, and then eny key I hit gave the same chirp) and nothing
>changed.  I ass-ume that if I had a bad CPU module, I wouldn't get the
>pretty green light.
> 
>> Also, I don't immedialy recall which DIMM slot is the first slot to
>> populate, but it either the front one or rear one, I can't recall.
>
>Docs seem to indicate that it's the slot closest to the front (IE, -not-
>the VSIMM slots).
>
>Thanks for the help.  I'm not giving up yet!
>
>Mike
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