E3000 boot problem

[Farab]

Hi

I received a Sun E3000 and have a slight problem at boot time. It's a hardware failure, but I'm unable at this stage to figure it out myself.

I'd like to state that it does manage to boot and load the OS (Solaris 9) at which point I can logon (via terminal), see all disks and work 'normally'.

The boot messages are:

Hardware Power ON
3,0>ERROR: TEST=NVRAM Devices,SUBTEST=M48T59 (TOD) Init ID=8.1
3,0>Component under test: Board 16 Firehose Bus
3,0>TODC battery is low bit set
3,0>ERROR: TEST=NVRAM Devices,SUBTEST=M48T59 (TOD) Init ID=8.1
3,0>Component under test: Board 16 Firehose Bus
3,0>TODC battery is low bit set
4-slot Sun Enterprise 3000, No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.2.30, 1792 MB memory installed, Serial #8630662.
Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved
Ethernet address 8:0:20:83:b1:86, Host ID: 8083b186.
...... blah blah blah ........

Does anyone have an idea of what exactly the problem is?

Thank you.

 

[Annihilannic]

I think TOD is Time Of Day... so my guess is that a battery that runs the clock when the system is powered off may be low?

Annihilannic.

 

[daFranze]

exactly what Annihilannic says, the OBP batery is low. Open the box and replace the coin cell (not sure where it is in an E3k)

Best Regards, Franz
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