[rescue] Sun Blade 100: no video, no beep on poweron

[Micah R Ledbetter]

On Sep 22, 2006, at 23:18, Micah R Ledbetter wrote:
> On Sep 15, 2006, at 11:06, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> On the off chance, have you tried hanging a terminal off of the
>> console
>> port?  A Sun Blade 100 will happily send a ^G to a terminal.
>
> OK, I finally did this, and I got output! Sweet!
>
> RED State Exception
>
> TL=0000.0000.0000.0005  TT=0000.0000.0000.0010
>     TPC=0000.0000.f000.4200  TnPC=0000.0000.f000.4204
> TSTATE=0000.0044.5000.1500
> TL=0000.0000.0000.0004  TT=0000.0000.0000.0010
>     TPC=0000.0000.f000.4200  TnPC=0000.0000.f000.4204
> TSTATE=0000.0044.5000.1500
> TL=0000.0000.0000.0003  TT=0000.0000.0000.0010
>     TPC=0000.0000.f000.4200  TnPC=0000.0000.f000.4204
> TSTATE=0000.0044.5000.1500
> TL=0000.0000.0000.0002  TT=0000.0000.0000.0010
>     TPC=0000.0000.f000.0c80  TnPC=0000.0000.f000.0c84
> TSTATE=0000.0044.5004.1400
> TL=0000.0000.0000.0001  TT=0000.0000.0000.0064
>     TPC=0000.0001.0994.2348  TnPC=0000.0001.0994.234c
> TSTATE=0000.0044.5000.1400
>
>
> Yeah, not quite so sweet. My reading of the docs says that memory
> failures don't look like this. I read something that says to reseat
> the CPU, and it gave me the same error.

A loving list member sent me a CPU, and badabam! I'm back in bidness.  
The RAM turned out to be OK, too :).

>
> And then, after I turned it off, I hear this loud TWANG. The heatsink
> had SNAPPED the stupid plastic tab on the CPU socket that was holding
> the accursed thing together! At least it didn't twang off into one of
> the bleeding capacitors and break *it* off.

This still isn't fixed. I tried epoxy, but it snapped before even a  
little bit of pressure is supplied... I think that the now-unattached  
tab is too small for it to work.
Fortunately, however, that isn't an issue (for now), because the  
heatsink came glued onto the processor.

Thanks for all the help, everyone, and thanks especially to you, oh  
giver of the CPU.

  - Micah