[SunRescue] What to do now?

[jeff borisch]

Rebecca Ore wrote:

>>> 
>>> Am I going to have to buy another nvram chip or more?
>> 
>> How long have you let it sit?  It can take a few minutes there..
> 
> It's taking way longer than it did.  Several other opinions were that
> I needed to reseat the memory (newly installed, reseated now), try
> another nvram chip, or take it in to work where some of the coworkers
> had been adminning Sparcs for a while.  One possibility was that it
> needed to be reset from a Sun keyboard.  Concensus was that it wasn't
> anything obvious.
> 

All the sparcs i've rescued have had the eeprom set to test only 1 MB of ram
at POST so that they start up faster. If you did something to reset the
nvram it could be trying to test all 64 MB. This can take a long time. I'm
probably wrong but it could be something to try.

--jeff


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