[Sunhelp] THIS SUCKS!!!

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:41:34PM -0800, bob i thomas wrote:
> I spent 3 days working on my Sparc Station IPC(4/40) and It worked great...
>   till I wen't into prom and typed "setenv use-nvramrc? true" then reset.
>   when it reset the monitor didn't have any picture and I haven't gotten the monitor pic back.
>   I om the monitor and checked the fuse. the monitor is fine
>   I tried Stop-A,Stop-D,Stop-F,Stop-N... with no change.
>   is there anyway I can reset the prom to default, without using the keyboard.Or without unpluging the chip.
>   like a jumper I can jump, and turn on the power, or a special dance I can do...
>                             thanks V01d

Boot it, then do this blindly:

Stop-A

new (to get to the "ok" prompt, may not need depending on bootprom rev.)

<enter>

set-defaults

<enter>

reset

<enter>

and it should reboot fine...

Other than that, try a serial terminal.

Bill

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