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4/6xx power supply problem (was Re: SM61 vs. SM71 - Why such a price difference?)

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From: David Wilson
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 00:00
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>In comp.sys.sun.hardware Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au> wrote:

>> 4/6xx boards can run SunOS 5.6 (aka Solaris 2.6) with some kernel fiddling
>> to remove the machine type check. There's no VME support as of 5.6, so it
>> makes a 4/6xx into a very capable single-board Sun-4m machine with lots of
>> Sbus slots. And one good thing is that 4/6xx's use standard 4 meg, 30 pin
>> parity SIMM's.

Speaking of 4/6xx machines, ours was running 2.6 until the power supply died
last week. Anyone know how to fix them? The machine will run for a while
then the power good light goes out and the fans stop. Any advice gratefully
accepted.
--
David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia  david@uow.edu.au
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From: david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)
Subject: 4/6xx power supply problem (was Re: SM61 vs. SM71 - Why such a price difference?)
Date: 1998/09/11
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