hi,

I'm in trouble with a Ultra-5 workstation... the symptoms are when I switch
on the PSU (at the rear) the station is powering up : i mean the keyboard
emits beep normaly, but the screen remains off, and I hear there is no hard
drive activity...

stop-A or stop-D does nothing visible, so I don't know what to do ! I'm a
newbie with sun hardware (and software...) so any suggestion wild be
helpfull !

regards,

--
Rico

Eric Belhomme wrote:
> hi,
>
> I'm in trouble with a Ultra-5 workstation... the symptoms are when I switch
> on the PSU (at the rear) the station is powering up : i mean the keyboard
> emits beep normaly, but the screen remains off, and I hear there is no hard
> drive activity...
>
> stop-A or stop-D does nothing visible, so I don't know what to do ! I'm a
> newbie with sun hardware (and software...) so any suggestion wild be
> helpfull !
>
> regards,
>

You need to get a serial (null modem) cable, hook it up to a PC (or
similar), run hyperterminal (teraterm is even better), remove the
keyboard, swich on, then look at the boot messages.

See for example
http://www.obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/serial/

Google on Sun Serial Console.

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According to Dave (from the UK) <jun-2006@southminster-branch-line.org.uk>:
> Eric Belhomme wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > I'm in trouble with a Ultra-5 workstation... the symptoms are when I switch
> > on the PSU (at the rear) the station is powering up : i mean the keyboard
> > emits beep normaly, but the screen remains off, and I hear there is no hard
> > drive activity...
> >
> > stop-A or stop-D does nothing visible, so I don't know what to do ! I'm a
> > newbie with sun hardware (and software...) so any suggestion wild be
> > helpfull !
> >
> > regards,
> >
>
> You need to get a serial (null modem) cable, hook it up to a PC (or
> similar), run hyperterminal (teraterm is even better), remove the
> keyboard, swich on, then look at the boot messages.

Agreed!

Out of curiosity -- is there a separate framebuffer (graphics
card) plugged into the PCI bus? If so, have you tried it as well as the
built-in framebuffer? IIRC, a plugged in card take precedence over a
built-in if both are present.

> See for example
> http://www.obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/serial/
>
> Google on Sun Serial Console.

Of course -- if you have a plain old ASCII terminal, that would
work just as well as the terminal programs on a PC. (I've still got two
of them around here -- one of which is the console on a SS-10 server
which I have.

Your Ultra-5 will work with IDE drives up to 120 GB (really up
to 137 GB, but 120 GB is the nearest available drive.)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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Eric Belhomme wrote:
> hi,
>
> I'm in trouble with a Ultra-5 workstation... the symptoms are when I switch
> on the PSU (at the rear) the station is powering up : i mean the keyboard
> emits beep normaly, but the screen remains off, and I hear there is no hard
> drive activity...
>
> stop-A or stop-D does nothing visible, so I don't know what to do ! I'm a
> newbie with sun hardware (and software...) so any suggestion wild be
> helpfull !
>
> regards,
>
> --
> Rico