[rescue] SunPCi questions

Mike Nicewonger rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Dec 6 14:24:23 CST 2001


On Thu, 06 Dec 2001, you wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I got my SunPCi board in last night. It's a first gen 300mhz with 64mb on
> board. I installed it into my Sun Blade 100 and installed version 1.3 of the
> software. However not all is joy just yet. 
> 
> First the bios is at rev .043. This may be the source of some of my driver
> issues, so I'd like to update it. However when I use the flash program I get
> this error:
> 
> "This prom is protected. This can only be unprotected in a prom programmer."
> 
> What the fsck can I do about this? Or do I need to get a different prom for
> this card? 
> 
> The other issues I am running into are that the mouse and video drivers
> provided by the sunpci software kit do not seem to be acting right - The
> mouse still needs to attached in the my meta-m and the video driver gives an
> error on startup but if you try to change it from the VGA/16color driver to
> the sun workstation screen driver it BSOD's.

Did you do as the instructions said and go to the directory after the inital
install and load new drivers?

Mike N



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