Sunblade 2000, Sunblade 1000 and 8gb - help!!
I have a Sunblade 2000 and I installed 8 sticks of 1gb DIMMS (X7052A) into it and it some strange things happened...
On reboot, the memory counted ok 8192gb, but the OBP reported ECC corections oddly related to paths pointing to firewire, the FC-AL drivees and the network, and reported no disks found.
I set the prom to max diags and diag-switch? to true and rebooted, and now nothing. I get:
1. Power button light behaving normally
2. No POST beep.
3. Fans start quiet then run full as normal powerup, disks spin up.
4. Keyboard lights never flash, no video on screen.
I have put the original memory back (4gb) and it's the same, no output.
Seems like POST is not completing, since no beep and therefore I am unable to do the Stop-N trick with 'double-clicking' the power button to restore prom defaults. 'Double clicking' the switch just powers off..........
Any ideas or have I foobared it?
I have put the 8gb back into it's original home, a SunBlade 1000, which brings me to that one's problem!
With keyboard in, on boot it seems to like the 8gb but there is no display until I see the message onscreen:
USB No Response
Then the usual redirecting tta output etc.
With keyboard unplugged it boots headless as expected (it's always been run headless). So it can see the USB keyboard but complains about it.....
Of course, these are the only two machines I have so no serial connection possible yet, although I'm working on that when I rebuild a PC later....
Cheers, gurus!
Steve
# 1
Bit further...
I am a bit stupid really - the lack of video on the SB2000 is cos ofthe full POST, max diags etc, of course it goes via serial.....
Hooked it up and all is normal, set in to min as previous and SB2000 is back online!
Did same with the SB1000 with the 8gb and it's fine too, still can't figure why the 8gb wont go in the SB2000.....This box has PROM version 4.4 tho......
# 2
OBP 4.4.x ?
How can I describe that...icky would be polite.
It could certainly be a contributing factor in what you've seen,
but there have been way too many bug fixes
between OBP 4.4.x and the current OBP 4.16.x (hundreds)
... not going to read every one just for a forum thread.
Go get the flash-update patch and update both systems.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunBlade1000/SunBlade1000.html
The same board is in both, so patch 118323 works for both the SB1000 and SB2000.
Next, there are two different DIMM part numbers used for that X-option, over the years.
You should not accidentally mix them in each group-of-four.
keep your 501-5031's together and keep your 501-6109's together.
(see the barcode on each DIMM)
# 3
The SB2000 is my personal box, has the latest OPB 4.16.4 I think. This is the box I want to put the 8gb into.
The SB1000 is a newly acqurred parts box which turned out to have 8gb ram in it - bonus! I've not even wiped the disks yet. This one is OBP 4.4.sth. The 8gb works fine in this box. The chips are not bar-coded, merely have a white sticker with X7052A-NL on them, no barcode. To be honest this box looks as tho it's as new, even has a torque tool and the heat plates underthe two 36gb Sun Disks.
I'll try again later - this time SB2000 with the 8gb, full diags, serial attached.....
