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

[Adrian Chung]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 01:35:08PM -0400, Julian C. Dunn wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 12:21, Adrian Chung wrote:
> 
> > I'm unsure of how much work is going to be required once I get the new
> > chip, I'm assuming that it'll be blank, and I'll have to reprogram it
> > somehow?
> 
> No, you don't need to reprogram it. The problem right now is that it
> appears that your Sun is unable to save or read the contents of the
> NVRAM chip. Usually this is due to the on-chip clock battery being dead,
> but in your case it appears that it's due to the chip being fried or
> corrupted in some way. Since the chip doesn't actually contain any logic
> (being NVRAM == Non-Volatile RAM) it doesn't need any programming. All
> you need is a flathead screwdriver to pop the existing chip out of its
> socket on the Sun's motherboard and to put the new one in.

Right, no, I get that.  What I meant by "reprogram" was populate it
with a valid configuration again.  

When I put the new chip in, it's not going to have any configuration
at all, so what happens with the host-id, ethernet address, and
anything else that was saved in the NVRAM?  Or does it just repopulate
it with default values?

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