[SunHELP] Sun UltraSPARC battery

[Herpers, Joseph]

Its the nvram battery as Nik said. Just had a customer with the same
exact story.
Joe

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From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Lance Spallholz
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 4:45 PM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org; brownc3 at union.edu; spallhol at union.edu
Subject: [SunHELP] Sun UltraSPARC battery


I have a Sun UltraSPARC IIi (300 MHz) that last week did not boot and
gave these two warnings at boot time:

WARNING: cpu node has invalid 'clock frequency' property
and
WARNING: time-of-day chip unresponsive; dead batteries?

I opened the box to find the batteries I expected to replace and there
were 
none that I could find (or recognize).  The CPU covers a small portion 
of the main board so I suppose it (they) could be under that.

Can someone explain these WARNINGS and tell me where to find the
batteries?

Also today I was able to boot the machine.  It only gave me the
"time-of-day"
chip WARNING at boot time.  When the machine came up the system time was

Dec 30, 1967
 

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