[Sunhelp] nonbooting ss10

[Vinay Bharel]

Try consoling the machine using the Serial port.  

Hook it up to a pc using a null modem cable.
Bring up a terminal like Hyperterminal , Tera Term or CRT.
Turn on the Sparc 10 and see if anything is displayed.

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Vinay Bharel
vinay at bharel.com
http://www.bharel.com

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Adam McDougall wrote:

> Hello, I was wondering if anyone could toss out any ideas that might help
> me get a sparc 10 up and running again.  Summary: Powers up, screen powers
> on but displays nothing, computer dead.  Possible cause:  I managed to
> bend a pin on a GX framebuffer while seating it which bent it off to the
> side of the connector.  I've since fixed that but it still wont boot
> 
> Things I've tried:
> Making sure the jumpers on the motherboard are set the same as another
> sparc10
> swapping framebuffers, cpu, memory, power supply with a known working ss10
> (and verifying the cpu and video in the broken computer still work)
> tried the GX in several sbus slots
> tried a 36mhz cpu and a 50mhz cpu with cache
> taken the motherboard out of the case to elimitate possible shorts
> tried a cg3 instead of the GX (cg6) but the monitor didnt even come on
> 
> I power on the computer, the keyboard beeps and blinks the lights, the
> computer blinks the lights on the keyboard very soon after, then in the
> time it takes for a HD to spin up the keyboard lights blink a third time
> and the monitor powers on.  Thats as far as it goes, it doesnt display
> anything.  The keyboard lights do not seem to respond to toggling numlock,
> etc.  
> 
> Thanks to anyone who takes the time to at least consider this :)
> 
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