[Suns-at-Home] SS-5 and NVRAM

[Lyle Bickley]

On Monday 13 August 2007 11:22, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> I have a Sparcstation 5 which, after being switched off for some months,
> appears to have lost its clock (i.e. on booting, its starts off with the
> date/time as last seen). OTOH, the NVRAM does not seem completely dead,
> since it still knows the serial number and the ethernet number. So it is
> possible that the battery is dying but has not fully died yet? I had
> always supposed that these things either worked, or they didn't, but this
> seems half-and-half.

I've observed several Sparcs having the same behavior. They work for awhile - 
and intermittently loose their "mind" as a result of a failing NVRAM.

You can either replace the NVRAM (IIRC, Jameco still carries the NVRAM 
"chips") or the NVRAM battery as described in the FAQs.

Lyle
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