Working on starting up a Sun Fire 240, I get the orange light on the back. According to the diagnostics, the IO-Bridge for CPU 0 has failed.
Does this indicate that the CPU must be replaced, or is that a component on the motherboard? Is it possible a faulty CPU would trigger that error?
Thanks.
On Friday, April 13, 2018 at 8:03:15 PM UTC-7, Martin McDonough wrote:
Working on starting up a Sun Fire 240, I get the orange light on the back. According to the diagnostics, the IO-Bridge for CPU 0 has failed.
Does this indicate that the CPU must be replaced, or is that a component on the motherboard? Is it possible a faulty CPU would trigger that error?
Thanks.
Well, after digging out some CPUs from a Sun Fire 210, and installing them in the 240, I can answer my own question. It seems the IO Bridge resides on the motherboard, and the issue cannot be fixed just by replacing the CPUs.
On 04/22/18 09:27, Martin McDonough wrote:
On Friday, April 13, 2018 at 8:03:15 PM UTC-7, Martin McDonough wrote:
Working on starting up a Sun Fire 240, I get the orange light on the back. According to the diagnostics, the IO-Bridge for CPU 0 has failed.
Does this indicate that the CPU must be replaced, or is that a component on the motherboard? Is it possible a faulty CPU would trigger that error?
Thanks.
Well, after digging out some CPUs from a Sun Fire 210, and installing them in the 240, I can answer my own question. It seems the IO Bridge resides on the motherboard, and the issue cannot be fixed just by replacing the CPUs.
I'm a bit late with this, but if you are in the uk, have a V240
or two for free, or just a m/board if you can organise the
shipping...
Chris
I'm not in the UK, unfortunately. Thanks for the offer though.
I did go through some of my old hardware about a month ago, and
On 07/08/18 04:41, Martin McDonough wrote:
I'm not in the UK, unfortunately. Thanks for the offer though.
I did go through some of my old hardware about a month ago, and
I found a 240 that passes all diagnostics and gets to the OK prompt.
My plan now is to load it with the drives and RAM from the machine
I was working on before.
If you are happy with command line, V240 will run FreeBSD, which
actually runs pretty well. I run it on a slightly later
V215. Frame buffer drivers are a problem and you will have to build
packages as required, but you can build Xvnc and use that to get a
remote desktop. Plus of course, you also get zfs and jails. Solaris
10 just works out of the box and you can get a working desktop by
adding a low end XVR100 graphics card or similar. Great machine to
get working and do some real work :-)...
Chris
On Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 4:47:44 PM UTC-7, Chris wrote:
On 07/08/18 04:41, Martin McDonough wrote:
I'm not in the UK, unfortunately. Thanks for the offer though.
I did go through some of my old hardware about a month ago, and
I found a 240 that passes all diagnostics and gets to the OK prompt.
My plan now is to load it with the drives and RAM from the machine
I was working on before.
If you are happy with command line, V240 will run FreeBSD, which
actually runs pretty well. I run it on a slightly later
V215. Frame buffer drivers are a problem and you will have to build
packages as required, but you can build Xvnc and use that to get a
remote desktop. Plus of course, you also get zfs and jails. Solaris
10 just works out of the box and you can get a working desktop by
adding a low end XVR100 graphics card or similar. Great machine to
get working and do some real work :-)...
Chris
I do have an XVR 100 card. I've been running OpenBSD on my 240s, since it seems to work a
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