[rescue] Troubleshooting thoughts

[Mike Spooner]

William,

I would try it with just a single CPU module at a time (both of them, one at a time) - MBus modules are all very old now, and I've had an MBus module die completely before.

Regards,
Mike

On 21 February 2025 19:17:08 GMT, 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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