[SunHELP] Sun UltraSPARC battery

Lance Spallholz sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Thu Feb 22 16:00:02 CST 2001


I have a Sun UltraSPARC IIi (300 MHz) that last week did not boot and
gave these two warnings at boot time:

WARNING: cpu node has invalid 'clock frequency' property
and
WARNING: time-of-day chip unresponsive; dead batteries?

I opened the box to find the batteries I expected to replace and there
were 
none that I could find (or recognize).  The CPU covers a small portion 
of the main board so I suppose it (they) could be under that.

Can someone explain these WARNINGS and tell me where to find the
batteries?

Also today I was able to boot the machine.  It only gave me the
"time-of-day"
chip WARNING at boot time.  When the machine came up the system time was 
Dec 30, 1967
 

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