[rescue] Sun Ultra 5 NVram - I fear I may have smoked my machine.

[Christopher Purdy]

Thanks Steve!!

I wasn't aware of the long diag mode - it came up after a few minutes!

- Chris

On Mon, Dec 2, 2024 at 11:32 AM Steve Hatle <steve.hatle at gmail.com> wrote:

> With the NVRAM reset, the machine goes to long diag mode, and it can be
> 3-5 minutes until you get the boot banner.
>
> As far as whether you’ve fried anything, I’m not sure but I wouldn’t be
> surprised.
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone...
>
> > On Dec 2, 2024, at 9:32 AM, Christopher Purdy via rescue <
> rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Morning all,
> >
> > Been loving this Ultra 5 - and was in the final stages of my rebuild...
> had SOlars 9 and 10 up and running and have a PGX64 card arriving today.
> >
> > As such, I was anticipating the frambuffer swap and needed to do the
> NVram hack to add in a battery..  Did that - and seemed easy enough.
> >
> > But - after reinstalling the NVram - Nada - no openboot screen.
> >
> > Figured I must have the NVram in backwards - so I swapped it around -
> nope, worse - it just got hot - so I quickly changed it back..  and then I
> disconnected the positive lead to the battery thinking that may have been
> the issue..
> >
> > Nope - black screen.
> >
> > I do get a beep and the CAPS key blinks a couple of times before going
> solid.
> >
> > Did I smoke my machine?  Or maybe just the NVram chip?
> >
> > Anyone have a spare NVram for an U5 I can get to see if I just created
> some e-waste?
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > - Chris
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Purdy
> >
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Christopher Purdy
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