[SunHELP] booting a Enterprise 3500

[Joe Pampel]

I think you're right. From my own exp middle light blinking continuously with
no boot up
is indicative of a POST error. Have you been able to get the hyperterminal
session up? The
whole POST will be viewable and you may see where the problem is. If the
serial
port is not happening, I'm not sure what that means.. but it would seem bad.
I hope that's not the case.

- Joe


>>> Edward Chase <echase at postoffice.providence.edu> 02/27/02 09:47AM >>>
I'm thinking it's dead, sort of...

I've gotten a video card for it and rebooted the machine.  It's been
sitting there for well over an hour.  Still no signs of life on the monitor.

The middle LED is blinking at a faster rate than yesterday.  This would
indicate a POST error versus an OBP error, if I remember correctly...



At 01:38 PM 2/26/2002 -0500, Edward Chase wrote:
>I just got a new/used Enterprise 3500.  This would be the first Sun box
>that I've played with that did not have a video card in it.  I've hooked a
>laptop to serial port A on the box and have HyperTerminal running.  I have
>HyperTermainal set to auto detect the terminal type and have it at
>9600-8-N-1 for communications settings.
>
>I've fired up the machine but do not see anything on the laptop.
>
>On the front, there are 3 LEDs.  The left is green, the middle is slowly
>blinking yellow, the right is off.
>
>Would this indicate that I've got some sort of hardware failure?

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