[rescue] Sun Voyager

[Ian McLaughlin]

> On Dec 14, 2015, at 9:54 AM, Peter Stokes <peter at ashlyn.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I always fancied having one of these since they were announced by Sun, well
> 20+ years on I actually found one for sale and at a give away price. This
is
> for keeping not selling BTW....!
>
> Not surprisingly the NVRAM is shot, and the disk has errors, but all easily
> remedied. The system POSTs fine so all is good except the screen.
>
> The screen works no problem LCD wise, it just has a tendency to lose sync
or
> something after a while, or if I adjust the pots on the screen at startup
and
> then goes reasonably ok, but not perfect. I have tried freezer without
> pinpointing the issue.
>
> I would like to resolve it, so anyone have any experience with the screens
on
> these or anyone have one they have no further use for?

Peter,

Regarding the hard drive, itbs a 2.5b
 SCSi drive - rare beast to find.
Mine died, so I boot mine from an external SCSI drive.

As for the video tearing up - have you checked the status of power supplies?
To me that sounds like possibly bad caps in the supply.

Ian