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From: Wolfgang on 6 Apr 2008 07:09
Richard B. Gilbert schrieb:
> Alfonso G. Urroz wrote:
>> I have an Ultra SPARC-IIi 300 Mhz, system, with 512 MBytes of EDO Ram, it
>> was working fine until yesterday, when all of the sudden a meesage sayoin
>> "IDPROM contents invalid".
>>
>> I was able to get to the OK prompt, a couple of times, and when I did
>> ./idprom, a whole bunch of garbled characters came up.
>>
>> It shows a MAC address, that is not evn close to what it used to be
>> before, also the time (clock) is all screqwed up.
>>
>> Question is, is there any solution to this problem?, can the chip be
>> reprogrammed?, do I have to buy a new chip?, if so, where do I go, or
>> write in order to get the chip?
>>
>>
>> Or, is my Sun box, dead beyond repair?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Alfonso G. Urroz
>>
>
> I suspect that your battery is dead or nearly dead. I believe it's
> built into a socketed chip on your mother board. The cleanest solution
> is to replace the chip which should fix you up for another five or ten
> years. Alternatively, you can hook up an external battery.
>
> See: http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html
> for the sordid details.

in case you buy a new clock chip: do you know the old data from your box
(MAC, ID)? Also a new one maybe must reprogrammed, with is decribed in
the link above, but the mac is only critical in production and id for
dependend licenses or similar.

Wolfgang
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