Re: probably ahrdware failure with sun fire v440

is there a way on sun fire v440 to see any output from ttyb serial DB9 
interface ?

removing hte ALOM nothing is displayad on the serial ienterface.

the OBP won't start in which way can i do a POST and identify hardre 
problem ?

thank you


On 6/10/13 5:25 PM, fddi wrote:
> 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
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