probably ahrdware failure with sun fire v440
fddi <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:25:45 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.solaris.managers |
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Hello,
I have this sun fire v440 bought from ebay.
4x 1,59 MHz ultra sparc IIIi CPU 8GB RAM
the problem is that i cannot access the OpenBoot OK prompt
* the ALOM starts up inserting the power cable
* if i power up the system pressing the button after 5 seconds the
system stops and powers down by itself telling this message on the
serial ALOM console:"SC Alert: Host Power-On Failed: System Power
OK, Open Boot not responding"
* I do not know the ALOM password so I Cannot even access the ALOM.
o the default ALOM password does not work
o removing the ALOM battery is not useful password is not reset
* the system does not have Solaris installed and I Cannot install
Solaris since I cannot reach the OK prompt
* I removed ALOM but on the serial ttyb DB9 nothing is displayed upon
startup without ALOM inserted. The system as usual powers down after
5 seconds
* I put hte ALOM back
* I reseated all the 4 CPUs, nothing changes
* I installed only one CPU, nothing changes
* I installed 2 CPUs, nothing changes
* I installed again all the 4 CPUs modules and nothing changes
I read about a ALOM firmware update regarding openboot failing
https://blogs.oracle.com/unixgeek/entry/host_power_on_failed_system
but the problem is that I have no solaris on this machine so I have no
way to update firmware.
I even wonder if any solaris would even boot since OpenBoot fails to load
I ask what else i could do to make this machine have a working OBP
thank you very much
Rick