Thu, 2003-01-30 at 13:07, Adam Augustine wrote: > Have you checked the battery? 9 times out of ten it is the battery that > is bad, and not the chip. (Yeah, NVRAM is not as NV as some would have you believe >:-) >
On Sun machines the battery is kind of built into the chip. Well not really, but it's sufficiently hard to replace the battery that everyone recommends replacing the chip. The chip and battery are knind of molded into on little plastic block with the pins coming out. Michael > Just a guess, > Adam > > Michael L Torrie wrote: > > > >>Just to follow up (the list was weird all weekend), we got the ELC > >>booting and running as a spiffy 1-bpp X terminal. Kind of fun to see > >>the little penguin logo in black and white as the machine boots up. > >>Very speedy at 33 Mhz with 24 MB ram. Takes about 3 minutes to check > >>the ram. > >> > >>The NVRAM chip is still bad, but we just reprogram it every time we > >>boot. For the record (and if anyone else happens to have an ELC), the > >>command sequence is: > >> > >>n > >>set-defaults > >>setenv diag-switch? false > >>f idprom@ 1 xor f mkp > >>8 0 20 e3 e4 e5 123456 mkpl > >>boot net > >> > >>Fun, eh? It's interesting how you can change the mac address so simply > > > > > >from the prom prompt. Anyway, fun weekend project. Not terribly > > >>useful, but that fun. > >> > >>Michael > >> > >> > >>On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 20:48, Evan McNabb wrote: > >> > >> > > > > > >>>>Michael Torrie and I are playing with a SparcStation ELC (Sun terminal). We're > >>>>having problems doing a net boot, and we are pretty sure that the problem > >>>>is a bad nvram chip. We tried taking one out of a Sparc 5 but it was the > >>>>wrong size. Does anyone else have one we could borrow/have/steal? > >>>> > >>>>(or if you could give us any advice on getting it working with a bad nvram chip) > >>>> > >>>>-Evan > >>>> > >>>> > >> > >> > >> > >>____________________ > >>BYU Unix Users Group > >>http://uug.byu.edu/ > >>___________________________________________________________________ > >>List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > >> > >> > > > > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
