[SunHELP] SparcCenter 2000

[Michael S. Schiller]

Hi All.

I just got ahold of a SparcCenter 2000 with 3 cpu cards in it, total of
6cpus, and 512m ram. it didn't have any hard drives in it, but I had 6 9
gig drives I added to the wide diff tray that the machine already had in
it, and I put another diff tray that I had here from my old 690 into it
as well. My plan was to install Sol8 on it fresh, as none of the drives
in it now have an OS on them, but I'm having a problem. When I connect a
keyboard & monitor to the system I get just a black screen. If I connect
a terminal to the A port of the first board I likewise get nothing. The
only way I can get any output from the machine is to put the machine in
the diag mode, then hit the reset button inside the front cover. If I do
this I can get diag output on the A port of any of the 3 boards, but I
never get an ok prompt! Can anyone give me any ideas? The lights on the
back of the unit are doing what they're supposed to be doing, I've got
the boards in the master card installed in the proper sbus slots, and I
can't see any reason why it's not working! Any help would be
appreciated.

-Mike

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