Subject: Re: SS10 hardware flakiness
To: Gerald Heinig <Gerald.Heinig@post.rwth-aachen.de>
From: Julian Coleman <jdc@coris.demon.co.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/25/2001 10:47:19
> I recently dusted off my SS10 which I haven't turned on in a month or two, but it wouldn't boot. I switched it on and off again a few times, and after about 10 minutes or so of not booting, the
> monitor switched on, the floppy tested itself and the PROM messages came up on the screen & the thing booted as if nothing had happened.

Could it be that some component is failing but is OK once it has warmed up
enough?  I have a 3/80 where the video card does this.  Can you hook up a
serial terminal and see if there is any output from the power-on self-tests?

J

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