<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">If it's really SS10 or SS20 compatible, you don't need to install RAM modules in pairs.<br><br>- Mike</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On 21 February 2025 21:03:05 GMT, Lionel Peterson via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
So you bought this system, right?<div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;" class=""> <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/196834115388?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=5h2LEpSfRD-&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY">https://www.ebay.com/itm/196834115388</a></div><div style="display: block;" class=""><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="">You say you've got 5x DIMMs? Shouldn't RAM be installed in pairs?</div><div style="display: block;" class=""><br></div><div dir="ltr">Ken</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 21, 2025, at 13:18, William Barnett-Lewis via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Got the Axil 320 and CPUs in today.</span><br><span>I've plugged in my dell flatscreen with a sun type 13w3->VGA adapter,</span><br><span>Type 5 keyboard and mouse, and ethernet cable. There are 5 memory</span><br><span>DIMMS (one in slot 0 marked 64mb, others unmarked). I pulled the</span><br><span>single 90mhz/256cache cpu and put in the 2 147s. I haven't gotten the</span><br><span>ZuluSCSI yet but hoped to get to the prompt.</span><br><span></span><br><span>No such luck.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I do get a single beep from the keyboard, all the led's flash once and</span><br><span>then nothing more. The most concerning thing is that one of the three</span><br><span>fans - the one closest to where the drives are - isn't spinning - and</span><br><span>there is as sort of undulating sound like going up and down. I let it</span><br><span>run for a good 15 minutes in case of dead NVRAM but still nothing came</span><br><span>up on video.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I presume the next thing is to get a serial cable from A/B on the back</span><br><span>to my PC? Anything special I'll need for that? Then just any linux</span><br><span>terminal emulator should do.</span><br><span></span><br><span>William</span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Live like you will never die, love like you've never been hurt, dance</span><br><span>like no-one is watching.</span><br><span> Alex White</span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>rescue list - http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org</span><br></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></body></html>