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Old 01-16-2008, 03:56 PM
EKP
 
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Default Advice about SPARCStation IPX

Hi all,
I am retrocomputers lover, and I recently got a Sun IPX.
I don't know very much about Sun's hardware.
The problem is that the machine doesn't boot and it even doesn not
print anything at all: monitor is blank.
Moreover monitor's led initially becomes green then it starts
blinking... as if just no signal reaches the monitor.
I thought that video board is not working. Am i right or wrong?
I tried to remove Ram, and reinsert every module step by step, to check
for damaged banks, but nothing changed.

Now, as you surely know, video board is itegrated in the mainboard. So
I wanted to understand firt of all if it's possible that this problem
is causated from the video board, or if there can be another cause.
Then If it's only a video problem, I'd like to know if there's a way to
solve it.
I mean... if another video board is pluggable to the expansion's
slots... or... i don't know...

any help will be appreciated.
thanks a lot in advance

Lele

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