[Sunhelp] Sparcbook 3GX hardware reset??

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: skelley at chelafin.com [mailto:skelley at chelafin.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 10:01 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [Sunhelp] Sparcbook 3GX hardware reset??
> 
> 
> I've got a Tadpole Sparcbook 3GX running Solaris 2.5.1.  I 
> can telnet to it
> but not log in -- (no users other than root) and the X server will not
> refresh the windows on the screen.  Mouse and keyboard work, 
> but there is
> no "active" window receiving the input.  Suspending it 
> doesn't help, as it
> always restores back to the same situation.  I cannot get to 
> the Ok prompt
> to boot again--and the power switch forces a 'suspend' 
> instead.  Any ideas?
> Is there a hardware reset switch?

So you can't log in via telnet even?  That's a bummer...  It's got a
battery, right?  And you can hook it up to a power supply?  Disconnect both,
and that should bring it down, unless I'm missing something.  I doubt that
those have an internal "standby" battery.  The other thing would be if you
can hook a keyboard up to it (a real type 4/5/6) and hit stop-a for the ok
prompt.  Either one of those should work, I'd think.
	Greg