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From: Jason Corcoran <jason@netra.icm-computer.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.internals,comp.sys.sun.apps,alt.unix.wizards,can.sun-stroke,alt.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Dead Sparc 2
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:42:55 +0000
Organization: ICM Computers (U.K)
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To: Mark Sitkowski <marks@acci.COM.AU>
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Mark Sitkowski 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.
>
> 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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Stack underflow. very good.