[rescue] Sparcstation 2 help! Please

[David Venable]

It appears that the NVRAM is hosed. This machine has 16x4mg  RAM chips and
floppy and a HD. My question is this, how much do the NVRAM chips cost? Is
it worth it to buy the chip or should I just look around Ebay for a machine
that boots? I paid about $30 for this one. I have keyboard, mouse, and an
external drive case with 2 Seagate full height drives.

What SS motherboards fit in this unit? Does anyone want to sell a mobo that
will fit?

 The reason I am going through is that I think that Sun makes a cool
machine, and I want to learn more about Unix.


Thanks in advance,






-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:35 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Sparcstation 2 help! Please


> I have a SS2 that upon bootup, states the following:
>
> Unrecognized keyboard
> Checksum bad... loading defaults
> it then looks at what appear to be storage devices and lists them, finding
> none, it says, input devices not found.
>
> It then gets into an unbreakable loop, that displays:
>
> Data Access Exception
> Press b to boot c to continue and n for new session.
>
> No keystroke will stop this and it keeps going, forever.

NVRAM going out?  Rebattery it or find another.  Force a set-defaults
to clear the nvram then do a warm reset and see if that clears it.
Check for ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff in the mac address label in the boot prom
signon message.... a dead giveaway of a dead battery....(:+}}...

Bob
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