[rescue] Troubleshooting thoughts

[William Barnett-Lewis]

Unknown at this time. It did arrive with a Ross 90 MHz 256 cache CPU
installed. I'll put it back in first when I get home from picking up my son
from his welding class.

On Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 15:35 Alan Perry <alanp at snowmoose.com> wrote:

> I can try stuff in my 320 (like an odd number of memory) to see if it
> works there.
>
> What is the PROM version?
>
> alan
>
> On Feb 21, 2025, at 13:08, William Barnett-Lewis via rescue <
> rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>
> 
> That's a really good thought. I don't have any previous experience with
> mbus machines, so that didn't occur to me. I'll try that when I get home in
> a bit.
>
> Thanks!
>
> William
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 14:56 Mike Spooner via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> wrote:
>
>> William,
>>
>> I would try it with just a single CPU module at a time (both of them, one
>> at a time) - MBus modules are all very old now, and I've had an MBus module
>> die completely before.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> On 21 February 2025 19:17:08 GMT, William Barnett-Lewis via rescue <
>> rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Got the Axil 320 and CPUs in today.
>>> I've plugged in my dell flatscreen with a sun type 13w3->VGA adapter,
>>> Type 5 keyboard and mouse, and ethernet cable. There are 5 memory
>>> DIMMS (one in slot 0 marked 64mb, others unmarked). I pulled the
>>> single 90mhz/256cache cpu and put in the 2 147s. I haven't gotten the
>>> ZuluSCSI yet but hoped to get to the prompt.
>>>
>>> No such luck.
>>>
>>> I do get a single beep from the keyboard, all the led's flash once and
>>> then nothing more. The most concerning thing is that one of the three
>>> fans - the one closest to where the drives are - isn't spinning - and
>>> there is as sort of undulating sound like going up and down. I let it
>>> run for a good 15 minutes in case of dead NVRAM but still nothing came
>>> up on video.
>>>
>>> I presume the next thing is to get a serial cable from A/B on the back
>>> to my PC? Anything special I'll need for that? Then just any linux
>>> terminal emulator should do.
>>>
>>> William
>>>
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