[rescue] Help! My Ultra AXi - dead or just misunderstood?

[Gary Nichols]

I'll give it a shot - this sure is a purdy AXi!  I'd hate to see it 
continue to sit in my garage... all alone... surrounded by dead i386 
architecture... no power... the humanity! *sniff*

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:05 pm
Subject: Re: [rescue] Help! My Ultra AXi - dead or just misunderstood?

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:38:00PM -0700, Gary Nichols wrote:
> > Guys,
> > I was just recently given a Sun Ultra AXi system in a generic 4U 
> case.  
> > Not sure on the proc speed, but it has .5GB of ram and some 
> sweet 
> > drives attached.  My problem is this:
> > On boot I get no video from the ATI pci card.  I pulled the card 
> and 
> > tried to get some output from serial A but no cigar.  
> > The machine powers up, beeps once "the 'hi! I'm alive' beep" and 
> > nothing.  I fear it's a dead CPU or bad motherboard.
> > Opinions?  This was given to me free, so I feel it's my duty to 
> bring 
> > it back to life!!!
> 
> Reseat the CPU - it solved a problem I was having with my AXi.
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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