[rescue] Ultra 1 - is it OK?

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Shirker wrote:

> The NVRAM battery in my Ultra 1 has gone flat, it seems.

> It displays the following rather disconcerting message upon switch-on:

> SC Control: EWP: 0  IAP: 0  FATAL: 0  WAKEUP: 0  BXIR: 0  BPOR: 0
> SXIR: 0  SPOR: 1  POR: 0

> and then continues as normal:

> Probing Memory Bank #0 ...

This looks like diag-mode.  Which is often an indication your NVRAM
went south, but not always.  I've never seen an Ultra NVRAM go flat
before, but all the sun4c and sun4m machines I've seen with NVRAM]
problems specifically mention the battery and/or TOD clock are bad.

Check the messages for that warning...

> Is this just the NVRAM battery, or is there something more serious
> wrong? From switch-on to it first displaying the white screen does seem
> to take an awful lot longer than usual.

If it's in diag-mode, it would take a lot longer.

--Kurt