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From: henderso@netcom.com (Mark C. Henderson)
Subject: Re: Dead Sparc 2
Message-ID: <hendersoDoHuoJ.9o9@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 02:53:07 GMT
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In article <314E178D.41C6@acci.com.au>,
Mark Sitkowski <marks@acci.COM.AU> wrote:
>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.
The internal bettery in your NVRAM chip is dead. See the Sun NVRAM/hostid FAQ
ftp://ftp.wimsey.com/pub/crypto/sun-stuff/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/he/henderso/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html
http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html
--
Mark Henderson -- markh@wimsey.bc.ca, henderso@netcom.com (personal accounts)
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