Re: My SS1 won't boot at ALL....

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 00:00

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Ivo Janssen wrote:

>Our current situation:
>We power up, the green powerled goes on and stays that way.
>If we don't connect a framebuffer and keyboard the terminalscreen stays
>blank.
>If we do connect a framebuffer and keyboard, the keyboard beeps, the
>numlock leds all go on, and then off immediately, in order to stay of
>forever.
>That's it. Nothing more.

Is there any RAM installed in the machine? If it doesn't have any RAM, it
won't start up. 

Assuming there is RAM, is it installed corrrectly? Did you check the RAM
layout against the map in James Birdsall's Sun Hardware Reference? 

Regards,

Craig.

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From: Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: My SS1 won't boot at ALL....
Date: 1997/12/16
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