[gtaSAGE-members] Ultra5 won't boot anymore.

[Adrian Chung]

Being SPARC illiterate, I'm hoping that someone else might be able to
point me in the right direction.

After a few power outages over the past few days, my Sun Ultra5 now
says this when it boots up:

Hardware Power ON

@(#) Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI 3.25 Version 1 created 2000/01/14 13:40
Probing keyboard Done
%o0 = 0000.0000.00ff.4001

Executing Power On SelfTest

@(#) Sun Ultra 5/10 (Darwin) POST 3.0.8 (Build No. 623) 16:05 on
01/14/00

CPU: UltraSPARC-LC (Clock Frequency: 400MHz, Ecache Size: -1360KB)

Time Stamp [hour:min:sec] ff:ff:ff  [month/date year] ff/ff 2133

Init POST BSS
        Init System BSS
MESSAGE=NVRAM at U1402 is not present/good
        addr ffffffff.f1001db0
        exp  0000
        obs  ffff

Time Stamp [hour:min:sec] ff:ff:ff  [month/date year] ff/ff 2133

NVRAM
        NVRAM Battery Detect Test
MESSAGE=NVRAM Low Battery
        addr 000001ff.f1001ff0
        exp  ef
        obs  ff

        NVRAM Scratch Addr Test
MESSAGE=Data miss compare
        addr ffffffff.f1001d00
        exp  00000000.00000000
        obs  00000000.ffffffff

        NVRAM Scratch Data Test
MESSAGE=Data miss compare
        addr ffffffff.f1001d00
        exp  55555555.55555555
        obs  ffffffff.ffffffff

MESSAGE=Data miss compare
        addr ffffffff.f1001d00
        exp  55555555.55555555
        obs  ffffffff.ffffffff

MESSAGE=Data miss compare
        addr ffffffff.f1001d00
        exp  55555555.55555555
        obs  ffffffff.ffffffff

MESSAGE=Data miss compare
        addr ffffffff.f1001d00
        exp  55555555.55555555
        obs  ffffffff.ffffffff

... and that repeats over and over, ad infinitum.

The strange thing is, the same thing happens if I pull the NVRAM chip
and boot it up as well.

I was thinking that maybe the NVRAM got fried, or that I need a new
one, but I'm not sure.  I'm also not even sure that that's the
problem.

Any ideas?

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