[SunRescue] What to do now?

[Rebecca Ore]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, jeff borisch wrote:

> 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.

The power supply is okay (just got through testing it with the Radio
Shack Digital Multimeter which I bought this morning).  I get this now 

PROM Checksum test                                   
Context Reg Test                                     
Segment Map Test                                     
Sizing Memory                                        
Page Map Test
Page Map Test
Memory Test
Probing Memory Bank #: 1 2 3 4 5 
Initializing Auxiliary Register
Installing Timer Interrupt Handler
Timing CPU Clock Speed
Reset/Initialize Keyboard
Illegal Instruction
ok CP


I've also gotten Bad EPROM when I powered it up.

The okay isn't taking anything like commands, by the way.






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Rebecca Ore
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