[rescue] Troubleshooting thoughts

[Todd Vernon]

 Yeah, fall back to the serial console.  I wouldn’t  put too much concern
about the fan, it might just be seized.

-t

Todd Vernon
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On Feb 21, 2025 at 12:17:08 PM, William Barnett-Lewis via rescue <
rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:

> Got the Axil 320 and CPUs in today.
> I've plugged in my dell flatscreen with a sun type 13w3->VGA adapter,
> Type 5 keyboard and mouse, and ethernet cable. There are 5 memory
> DIMMS (one in slot 0 marked 64mb, others unmarked). I pulled the
> single 90mhz/256cache cpu and put in the 2 147s. I haven't gotten the
> ZuluSCSI yet but hoped to get to the prompt.
>
> No such luck.
>
> I do get a single beep from the keyboard, all the led's flash once and
> then nothing more. The most concerning thing is that one of the three
> fans - the one closest to where the drives are - isn't spinning - and
> there is as sort of undulating sound like going up and down. I let it
> run for a good 15 minutes in case of dead NVRAM but still nothing came
> up on video.
>
> I presume the next thing is to get a serial cable from A/B on the back
> to my PC? Anything special I'll need for that? Then just any linux
> terminal emulator should do.
>
> William
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