[geeks] Firmware updating

[Andrew Weiss]

Only unfortunate thing about this puppy (it has got me extremely down 
this weekend) is that it has to go back...*sob*

Ethernet connector has a dry joint somewhere inside of it... since it 
has a 30 day warranty I am going to send it back... I'm U2'less for a 
few more days DOH!.  He wants to exchange the entire unit... I had taken 
it apart and put the motherboard in an anti-static bag, but had to put 
the whole thing back together.  I tried to boot it before I send it back 
and it now shows 384 MB RAM instead of 256, but won't boot.  All 
Openboot tests pass however... still no Ethernet link LED... I think the 
RAM must have had a stick or two loose, and/or I reversed the order of 
the DSIMMS when I put them back in.

What makes this double-plus ungood is the fact that my LX also died this 
weekend.  Can these things overheat? (LXen)  I don't know why it crashes 
all of a sudden and then when power cycled won't come on... everything 
inside comes on except POWER LED and no output serial/framebuffer.  When 
it occasionally does power on there are no clues as to a dead NVRAM... 
everything looks fine... time is kept, and MAC addy is right.  Usually 
locks hard on boot.  My house reached a sustained 84 F this weekend... 
perhaps 86.  I wasn't running the LX for longer than 20 minutes this 
last time before it died... left it overnight... started it at 72F got 
to Open boot... booting... crash within 1 minute.

Andrew


On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 11:53 PM, Peter L. Wargo wrote:

> On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 09:19 AM, Andrew Weiss wrote:
>
>> I was only worried that the firmware CD required an SGI'ian support 
>> contract to get... thank god... :-)
>
> Sun actually is a cool company at times. -Plug-
>
>> Does the thing normally go into 24 bit mode automatically for a clean 
>> installed CDE?... or do I have to use ffbconfig.
>
> Should default to 8+24 if memory serves.
>
> -Pete
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