My Blade's in trouble!!!
Hello everyone !!!
I need some help with my SB1000.
I've got a Sun Blade1000 workstation with two 750 MHz CPUs, 2GB RAM, two hard drives (18 and 36 gig), XVR-100 video and such...
Recently i started seeing some weird behavior.
The box reboots for no reason and there's nothing in the /var/adm/messages.
I decided to upgrade to Solaris 10 6/06 release but that didn't help.
I think its a hardware issue but how do i find what it is?
I ran some diagnostic procedures but found nothing.
Does anyone know and can point me in the direction of the right approach to find what the problem is?
Any kind of logging that needs to be enabled? DTrace?
Sun Explorer?
Basically i'm looking to identify what fails in my system and causes it to reboot.
Thanks in advance,
Sal.
# 1
If the reset events are so abrupt that nothing gets logged to the MESSAGES file,
then you likely have a hardware issue, not a software problem, and
your only alternative is to push the system through a diagnostic POST
which will help to determine the actual lump of hardware that's faulty.
Get the system's Service Manual.
Read through the last 18 months' of forum posts, as well,
because you do such tests when you're connected through the system's serial port,
not through any keyboard/mouse/monitor configuration.
You need another computer as your remote terminal when you do a DIAG POST.
The configuration to make such a serial-port-to-serial-port connection
has been discussed many times in the forums and if you own
a SPARC system, you need to know how to do this.
SB1000 in the Sun System Handbook:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunBlade1000/SunBlade1000.html
SB1000 documentation, as linked from the Sun System Handbook:
http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Workstation_Products/Work stations/Sun_Blade_Workstations/Sun_Blade_1000/index.html
