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From: Mark Sitkowski <marks@acci.COM.AU>
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Subject: Re: Dead Sparc 2
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:10:21 +1100
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Dear Sun experts,
I need your help on this one, it's really weird:
My machine died yesterday. On switch-on, the IP address and the hostid
showed up as FF.FF.FF.FF.FF and FFFFFFFF, and instead of saying
'Testing...'
the thing went testing its audio chip ('Listen for beep...').
When it was happy, it went into an endless loop testing memory.
In diagnostic mode, 'boot sd(0,0)vmunix' got the reply 'SCSI device
failed to respond', while probe-scsi correctly found all SCSI devices.
The network loopback test fails with 'IDPROM data corrupt' (or similar).
Memory dumps dump, but memory fills say 'stack underflow'.
Three days ago the internal lithium battery died, but surely that's not
connected...?
If anyone out there knows the answer, please reply by email as soon as
possible, to save my sanity. I can't figure this one out.
Mark
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