Sun blade 1500 dead ?

[Michael Grunditz]

Hi

I just got a secondhand Sun Blade 1500. It worked when it was
shipped , but now it doesn't start properly.

When I press the powerbutton the fans starts , the hd:s coes to life
and the dvdrom blinks. The powerbutton shows a steady light with no
blinking.
There is no output on framebuffer and when I try serial without
keyboard connected I get nothing. I have tries everything I can think
of , like reseating the memory etc.
The system doesn't make any beeps at all. I tried to run it with a
wrong ram configuration and hoped that I should get the error beeps ,
but nothing.

Any ideas what to try next ?

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

if you haven't already
- if the nvram chip is socketed, check that it is still in its socket,
and / or reseat it
- try without a hard drive
- try many, many, many times powering it on (I had a Blade 1000 with bad
memory, it would only start about one in ten tries)

HTH
--
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway

[DoN. Nichols]

Possibly removing and re-seating the CPU(s)? I've had that kind
of problem with dust in the CPU connectors on a Sun Blade 1000 or Sun
Fire 280R (I forget which now -- perhaps even both. :-)

Good Luck,
DoN.

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