[rescue] Trying to rescue a Sun Ultra 45

[Robert Novak]

I've seen issues like this with some non-sun workstations (big dual-opteron
HP for example). I'd get through POST and then a few seconds later it would
power down. Trying again immediately wouldn't make it through POST before
powering itself down.

I removed the cooling assembly, cleaned and reapplied thermal paste,
replaced cooling assembly, and it ran for weeks (until I decided to use
something else). .


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:23 AM, mc68010 <mc68010 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/14/2014 8:53 AM, Sean Tedio wrote:
>
>> I have acquired a Sun Ultra 45workstation. The Sun part number is
>> A89-XHZB1-9AF-1GDT. I felt the junk heap was an improper end for such
>> a fine machine and so I decided to bring it home.
>>
>> Short Story:
>> The machine powers on for a few seconds and then turns off. I have a
>> number of LEDs on the motherboard and I'm wondering if there is any
>> way to obtain diagnostic information from them.
>>
>>
>>
> I have had a very similar behavior happen on two sunblade 2500 and in both
> cases reseating the CPUs fixed it. They tend to come loose in shipping or
> being moved around I guess. The power up and spin up fans before shutting
> right down is what they would do with no CPUs installed too. You might try
> that. On one of them it took a couple of reseating before it worked again
> but, then it was fine forever.
>
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