I have a couple of Sparcstation 2 machines that have been sitting in my "when I get around to it" pile and well...with current events, I am getting around to it.
They both have all ram banks filled, and working sbus video cards (i tested these and the hard drives in another Sparcstation 5) but when I power them up, neither will show any display on a monitor that works fine with other Sparcstation 4 and 5's.
If the NVRAM was dead, would that cause a 2 to fail to display at all?
On a 4 or 5 it doesn't, but these are older machines.
The harddrive seems to spin up, and no wierd noises, but I do not have a Type 4 keyboard so I cannot see the 4 led's that display the issues for these.
Anyone have any ideas, I would welcome them.
I do have an external CD-ROm and external hard drive which I will try next (when I find both the scsi cables, which are different, by the way) and see if I get any further.
I also have a brother with a type 4 keyboard and so, when I can I will get that from him and see if I can go through the diagnostics.
Thanks,
GregSS
They both have all ram banks filled, and working sbus video cards (i tested these and the hard drives in another Sparcstation 5) but when I power them up, neither will show any display on a monitor that works fine with other Sparcstation 4 and 5's.
If the NVRAM was dead, would that cause a 2 to fail to display at all?
On a 4 or 5 it doesn't, but these are older machines.
The harddrive seems to spin up, and no wierd noises, but I do not have a Type 4 keyboard so I cannot see the 4 led's that display the issues for these.
Anyone have any ideas, I would welcome them.
I do have an external CD-ROm and external hard drive which I will try next (when I find both the scsi cables, which are different, by the way) and see if I get any further.
I also have a brother with a type 4 keyboard and so, when I can I will get that from him and see if I can go through the diagnostics.
Thanks,
GregSS