[rescue] Troubleshooting thoughts

[William Barnett-Lewis]

That's my thoughts too. I've got the appropriate null modem cable in
my cart but will need to wait for next Friday (argh! the pain! Heh.)

Ah well, no big, at least no smoke got out when I flipped the switch LOL!

William

On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM Todd Vernon <todd at toddvernon.com> wrote:
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> Yeah, fall back to the serial console.  I wouldn’t  put too much concern about the fan, it might just be seized.
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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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