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Hey,


Just wanted to follow up on this.


I bought a new system board for this machine and it came to the 'OK> ' prompt straight away. I reckon the old board was a dud!


I actually found...

Hi Gull04,


As for CPU, I put both CPUs back in yesterday. I'll try some spare CPUs in slot 0 in case the CPU is faulty, although I'd have hoped that the ALOM would have realised if it was.


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Yes, that's what the first mainboard did. The ALOM is corrupted I think. I gave up on that board.



Note that more recently in this thread I'm using a different mainboard.

Hi hicksd8,


I did eventually get into the LOM by swapping the SCC card for one with a known password, but the first thing I will do if I can get the `OK` prompt is install Solaris and reset the...

Hi Gull,


I've replaced the battery and it hasn't helped, I'm afraid.


Any last ideas before I source a new mainboard?


Cheers

I'll get you the output from those commands later when I'm at the machine again.


And I'll get a new battery in case that is the issue!


Thanks

Hi gull04,


Thanks for your ongoing patience with this thread!


I'm not at the machine, but off the top of my head `poweron:




does indeed turn the system on and spins up the fans.
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Well, I was unable to install solaris on the other machine, as it was a "managed system", meaning that you can't boot it with the SCC card ejected. It would just shutdown if you tried to turn it on....

Sadly the ALOM password has been reset by whoever owned the motherboard before.


Even more sadly, the ALOM password is stored in flash memory, so removing the battery doesn't kill the password.
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Hi gull04,


Thanks for the reply.


I'll give that a shot!


I was hoping that the serial ALOM could be revived somehow, but I guess not.


I do actually have a spare mainboard that I...

Hi,


First post here!


I have a Sun V210 that I use occasionally for build testing things big-endian. I switched it on the other day, at it aint comin' up. I was wondering if anyone on this...