In <003601bf1807$67160fc0$060a0a0a@mad>
martin@ifb.co.uk wrote:

> Can't say I know a lot about these things but I have an old sony news box,
> The
> only way I can get it to power up is to hold the reset button thing in
> (small button on the left of the box) whilst holding the power button on for
> a 10 seconds or so. Then release the reset *before* the power.

This problem caused by dead NVRAM, which is
the same chip with the Sun machines.

> The dip switches are I believe to do with memory installation.
> Or so it says in the user manual, unfortunatly it gives no clues how to set
> them :(

NWS-3470 has only 8 block dip switches.
No.1,2,3 are used to specify console
framebuffer (000 means serial console)
and No.5 specifies auto boot.
I'm not sure about NWS-32x0, though.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp