[SunRescue] PROM password issues.

[jborisch]

The link didn't work anymore after the Google < deja buyout.

I did turn up this, from James Lockwood.

HTH,
jeff


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>Subject: Re: Help! I don't know my SparcStation's PROM Password!
>Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 20:02:42 GMT
>From: james at foonly.com (James Lockwood)
>Organization: The Electric Mayhem
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
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>George Adkins (gwadkins at spamtrap.erols.com) wrote:
>: Replacing the NVRAM (IDPROM) with a new one is probably the 
>: best thing to do, considering that it's probably going to go 
>: soon anyway, but you can do it this way too,
>
>The way you have listed (hot plugging the NVRAM) does indeed 
>work, but it is unnecessarily risky.  It's possible to reset 
>it with no hot plugging and no risk for the cost of a 24 pin 
>socket (a ZIF socket if you really want to make it easy).
>
>Take the socket and clip off one of the address or data lines. 
>Pin 1 is A7 and that works fine.
>
>Remove NVRAM from motherboard.  Plug the socket into the
>motherboard and the NVRAM chip into the socket.
>
>Power the system on.  You will get an NVRAM checksum error. 
>At the ok prompt, type anything that induces an NVRAM write 
>(set-defaults works).
>
>Power the system off.  Unplug the NVRAM and socket, then plug 
>the NVRAM back into the motherboard.  Power on and you will 
>get another checksum error.  You can now program the NVRAM to 
>your hearts content.
>
>It sounds more complicated, but it's really quite fast and 
>easy as you don't have to worry about killing any hardware 
>while the power is on.
>
>-James
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