[Sunhelp] Newbie Tips

[Michael Radtke]

Ok, I put the memory in, just one bank of 1 Meg SIMMS that I KNOW are all
the same in the 0 bank, and I left the remaining banks empty.  When I turn
the machine on, I still cannot get any terminal activity.  The green light
on the front, though, flashes once, turns off, then flashes 6 times.  It
keeps repeating this cycle.  I can hear the fan coming on, the floppy
clicking, and the first HD spinning.  Any ideas?


At 04:07 PM 7/4/99 -0700, you wrote:
>On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Michael Radtke wrote:
>
>> First of all, thank you very much to everyone that has helped me so far
>> with my hand-me-down Sparcstation 1.  I really appreciate it!  I have
>> gotten memory installed, (eight 1MB simms for now), and would like to fire
>> this puppy up and run it remotely via a null modem/serial cable connection
>> to my NT box.  The problem is that, when I start the Sun, I see the lights
>> come on and hear the power supply fun run, but no other activity.  I cannot
>> see a thing with either Hyperterminal or HostAccess.  I thought that all I
>> had to do was start the Sun without graphics or a keyboard plugged in and
>> attach a null modem connection to port A to see terminal output on my PC.
>> Am I missing something?  Is something wrong with the BIOS?
>
>Which slots are the SIMMs installed in, and are they full parity and 100ns
>or faster?
>
>An earlier poster mentioned the SIMM layout required for the SS2.  The
>other SparcStations that use 30-pin SIMMs require them to be installed
>contiguously.  From the Sun h/w reference:
>
>        Memory consists of up to sixteen 1M (501-1408) or 4M (501-1625
>        or 501-1739) x 9 30-pin 80 or 100ns SIMMs, in four banks. Banks
>        must be filled in the order 0, 2, 1, 3, and SIMM types may not
>        be mixed within banks.
>
>                Nearest disk connectors
>                 _______     _______
>                |       |   |       |
>                |   0   |   |   1   |
>                |       |   |       |
>                |_______|   |_______|
>
>                 _______     _______
>                |       |   |       |
>                |   2   |   |   3   |
>                |       |   |       |
>                |_______|   |_______|
>
>                Nearest SBus connectors
>
>In other words, the first four SIMMs should go in U0585/U0586/U0587/U0588,
>the next four should go in U0589/U0590/U0591/U0584, and so on.
>
>-James
>
>
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Michael Radtke
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