[SunHELP] NVRAM Chip

[Jim Pennino]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 08:32:47AM -0400, Prakash Konkimalla wrote:
> Hi
> I have a Sun UltraSPARC IIi (440 MHz) that last week did not boot and gave
> these two warnings at boot time:
> WARNING:Invalid IDPROM contents
> WARNING: time-of-day chip unresponsive; dead batteries? 
> Can someone explain these WARNINGS ? 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 31, 1967 
> All my applications are running on this OS is TOD based.. Please Help me out
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Prakash
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Jim Pennino