Re: help.bad battery on SS1+ or something worse?

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 00:00

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In <329D70F5.3B35@webspan.net> Eugene Rikel <erikel@webspan.net> writes:

>why is my host id set to ffffffff and 
>ehternet address is ff.ff.ff.ff.ff.ff?
>after a power up machine comes up in a diagnostic mode every time, 
>even if I set it correctly myself.
>machine boots fine, but ethernet diagnostics fail.

The battery in the NVRAM has probably died.

For more info about NVRAM's, etc. check Mark henderson's NVRAM/hostid FAQ 
at 'http://www.rahul.net/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html'.

Regards,

Craig.

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From: craig@zeta.org.au (Craig Dewick)
Subject: Re: help.bad battery on SS1+ or something worse?
Date: 1996/11/30
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