bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr (Manuel Bouyer) writes:
> I got a bad news when I powered up my IPC yesterday: it lost all its
> nvram settings, as well as ethernet address and host id. Sigh.

Probably a bad nvram/clock battery.  The double-high chip with the
bar-code sticker on top is the villain.  If you don't mind playing
around a bit you can take a Dremel tool to the top part of the chip
and excavate the battery area, disconnect the old battery and solder a
new battery onto the two wires.  You can also buy a new chip from a
used-Sun reseller.  Good info is at:

	http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

-wolfgang
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