It sounds like it's not happy about the memory.

Try hooking up serial port a to a terminal and see if it says anything
clever.


On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Pete Plank wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I recently obtained a SPARCStation 1+ which I'd like to set up with NetBSD.
> I've run into a couple of problems with it though.
> 
> When I first tried powering on the machine, nothing happened at all. I
> swapped out the power supply from my Sun 3/80 temporarily to see if that
> helped any, and it did ... the machine sprang to life. I examined the fuse
> inside the SS1+'s power supply and it seems intact.
> 
> Anyway, soon after it powered up, it gave a loud beep, and began flashing
> the front LED in a continuing pattern; 1 long flash followed by six short
> (rapid) ones. Something isn't sitting right with it, but I haven't a clue as
> to what to troubleshoot without some sort of reference.
> 
> The machine appears to have 16 MB RAM installed, and it all is snugly
> seated. It also has what appears to be a CG3 sbus framebuffer (part number
> on underside is 270-1909-02 Rev 1).
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions as to what to try next? I didn't get any video
> output when I hooked up the multisync color monitor from my SGI Indigo to
> the CG3; the standby light went from amber (no signal) to green, but the
> screen remained blank. I thought about hooking up some sort of serial
> console using my 3/80, but I only have one power supply between the two
> machines at the moment.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pete Plank
>