Re: Dead SS20 NetBSD machine

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <FFB5661E-976C-405C-8A73-67DCD0C0A4B4%isolar.DynDNS.ORG@localhost>,
Greg Earle  <port-sparc%NetBSD.ORG@localhost> wrote:
>(Yes, I know this isn't a hardware forum.)
>
>My NetBSD/SPARC 1.4.1 (yes, that's not a typo) machine, a faithful  
>SPARCserver 20 which has served yeoman duty for me as a front-end  
>SpamAssassin filtering system along with the occasional Web serving  
>use, appears to have bitten the dust suddenly.
>
>I woke up to find the light stuck on (I use "options BLINK") and the  
>system unresponsive.  Usually a power-cycle gets it out of its torpor  
>but today was different - it turns on, the CD-ROM drive light blinks,  
>I hear the fans, but it doesn't even show POST in the console window.
>
>Is it more likely to be the CPU module (it's got a HyperSPARC 125 MHz  
>CPU) or a dead motherboard?
>
>I'll likely not resuscitate it, but it would be nice if I could at  
>least get it back on to do a final set of level 0's and then dispense  
>with it (I'd probably just give it to a Los Angeles-area person from  
>this list).

I think I have a couple of SS20's around that I would throw away anyway in
the next space crunch if you want them.

christos