[Sunhelp] nonbooting ss10

[steve price]

how about plugging in a serial terminal???

--- David Beaudoin <beaudoin at firstinvestors.com>
wrote:
> Possible totry swapping the keyboard for one that's
> known good? I had
> a similar problem once and that's what it turned out
> to be.
> 
> -Dave
> 
> > 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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