awaiting a reply from sun...

what would happen if it didn't have the nvram chip in?

Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Daniel Finn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "SLUG Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] sparc problem....


> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Peter Samuel wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Daniel Finn wrote:
> >
> > > ok, I tried the STOP+N on bootup, it didn't seem to work....
> > >
> > > um... I got a sun keyboard... and the key is located just below the
help
> > > button:
> > >
> > > HELP
> > >
> > > X   x
> > >
> > > X being stop
> >
> > That's the key. Sorry can't help any further :(
> >
> > What does a web search show?
>
> Google.com came up with a quick answer. See the sun nvram faq
>
>     http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html
>
>     ...
>     7.My Sun is in full-security mode (can't even boot without password)
>     and I don't know the EEPROM password. How do I fix this? (Replace
chip)
>
> Looks like you need to talk to Sun about a replacement prom.
>
> Regards
> Peter
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