[rescue] Sparc20 help?

Mike Johnson mike at enoch.org
Wed Feb 19 22:23:45 CST 2003


I need some help. :(  I've had a Sparc20 base sitting around for a while
(bought it off eBay), that was totally stripped.  No discs of any sort,
no RAM, no CPU, no SBUS cards, no VSIMM, nothing.  I screwed up on an
auction recently and ended up with some ss20 DIMMs (misread the listing,
thought I was getting cheap RAM for my ss5's), so I went looking for a
CPU.  Got a SM61 for ~$11 shipped, which arrived today.  

The saga continues.  I drop some of the RAM in, taking a moment to
figure out the orientation, drop in the CPU, and hit the power switch.
Nothing.  No green light, no output to serial console.  Grr.  Move the
CPU to the lower slot, move the memory to the slots closest to the
front, try again.  Yay, green light, still no output to serial.  Pull
all the RAM but one, try a different stick, still no output.  Put in a
video card I have laying around, plug in keyboard, hit power button on
keyboard, monitor gets no signal.

So, I'm stuck.  A friend verified the RAM in an Ultra1, the video card
worked when I pulled it, the seller says the CPU worked when it was
pulled, yet I can't get any output from the thing.  Oh, and the fans in
the power supply do spin up just fine.

Any ideas?  I did some searching, but could certainly have missed
something.

Thanks,
Mike
-- 
"If life hands you lemons, YOU BLOW THOSE LEMONS TO BITS WITH 
 YOUR LASER CANNONS!" -- Brak

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