Words to the wise, "EKP" <palazzinaro@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi all the nice ppl who wanted to answer me. I thank you all once
>again.
>I've found a lot of books and manuals about sun hardware just with your
>help.
>About this: on socs.sun.com there's a manual just for the ipx but it
>has not the pictures of the tables.
>Since i managed to find a keyboard, now i can see the boot sequence
>with keyboard led.
>But i can't interpretate it!
>Maybe someone of you just knows it, so I write it here:
>
>1. every led is on
>2. caps lock is blinking
>3. scroll lock does one blink
>4. caps lock continues blinking
>5. caps lock stays on
>6. every led is on
>7. every led is off
>
>8. hd starts
>

Somewhere, there is a document which describes what those blink codes
mean, but I cannot remember how to search for it nor do I have a
bookmark.

HI,

EKP wrote:
> Hi all the nice ppl who wanted to answer me. I thank you all once
> again.
> I've found a lot of books and manuals about sun hardware just with your
> help.
> About this: on socs.sun.com there's a manual just for the ipx but it
> has not the pictures of the tables.
> Since i managed to find a keyboard, now i can see the boot sequence
> with keyboard led.
> But i can't interpretate it!
> Maybe someone of you just knows it, so I write it here:
>
> 1. every led is on
> 2. caps lock is blinking
> 3. scroll lock does one blink
> 4. caps lock continues blinking
> 5. caps lock stays on
> 6. every led is on
> 7. every led is off
>
> 8. hd starts
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Lele

Could you please connect a terminal at 9600 baud to serial connector A,
then the machine will maybe print out messages it usually does.

>
> PS: A retrocomputer's lvoer would never use an old system such this one
> just to obtain some useful work. Neither would never use only the case,
> trashing a wonderful proprietary rchitecture with a RISC processor,
> just to hold a normal pc inside it.
>
Good


/michael

"EKP" <palazzinaro@gmail.com> writes:
> Since i managed to find a keyboard, now i can see the boot sequence
> with keyboard led.
> But i can't interpretate it!

IPX Keyboard diagnostic codes:

LEDs
(1=ON) FRU Meaning
---- ---------- ------------------------------------
0000 n/a Testing complete. SunOS is booted.
0001 Boot PROM Bad checksum in boot PROM.
0010 NVRAM/TOD NVRAM/Time-of-Day Clock failed
0011 n/a main logic board component failed OR
SIMM U0310 (slot 0) failed.
0100 SIMM U0310 SIMM U0310 (slot 0) failed.
0101 SIMM U0309 SIMM U0309 (slot 1) failed.
0110 SIMM U0308 SIMM U0308 (slot 2) failed.
0111 SIMM U0307 SIMM U0307 (slot 3) failed.
1000-1111 Reserved.

-WBE