[rescue] Help! My Ultra AXi - dead or just misunderstood?

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:38:00PM -0700, Gary Nichols wrote:
> Guys,
> I was just recently given a Sun Ultra AXi system in a generic 4U case.  
> Not sure on the proc speed, but it has .5GB of ram and some sweet 
> drives attached.  My problem is this:
> On boot I get no video from the ATI pci card.  I pulled the card and 
> tried to get some output from serial A but no cigar.  
> The machine powers up, beeps once "the 'hi! I'm alive' beep" and 
> nothing.  I fear it's a dead CPU or bad motherboard.
> Opinions?  This was given to me free, so I feel it's my duty to bring 
> it back to life!!!

Reseat the CPU - it solved a problem I was having with my AXi.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX