[gtaSAGE-members] Ultra 5 NVRAM issues -- followup.

[Julian C. Dunn]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Adrian Chung wrote:

> So I received a new NVRAM, and had to actually pop it in while the
> server was attempting to POST in order to get the server to reset
> properly.
>
> Now, it at least boots to the OpenBoot prompt, and as expected shows
> 'ff' for hostid, ethernet address, date, etc.
>
> I've followed the SUN NVRAM FAQ, and tried everything in there, no
> matter what I do, the NVRAM won't reprogram.

Ok, so it looks like (from your message to SAGE-members) that the
workstation really is toasted. Did you have it plugged into a surge
protector per chance?

- Julian

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