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Yepp thats the one, I only have the flashlight and the CPU left, don't know what I did with the tool. I changed the CPU on a number of our SS2 and IPX running Xilinx and Viewlogic EDA tools at that time. From what I recall the CPU was fine for P&R(compiling FPGA data) but for interactive use I did not notice any difference.
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Hi,
Just scored a Sparcstation 5 with two OS's; disk0 - Solaris 8 and disk1 - NeXTSTEP 3.3. Disk 0 is set as the default boot disk but I can boot to NeXTSTEP by typing boot disk1 at the ok prompt. NVRAM battery is dead and I have to set the NVRAM values at the ok prompt before booting if I want to have proper network connectivity. There are some minor nicks/scratches on the top from where the monitor sat but not bad at all for only a $20 investment. :)
:Fuel: asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2: speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2: moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2: Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy: ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
:Indigo2IMP: Iris - R10k 195 MHz, Max Impact, 512 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci
tux wrote: [...] NVRAM battery is dead and I have to set the NVRAM values at the ok prompt before booting if I want to have proper network connectivity. [...]

I've created an expect script which does the reprogramming automatically , which could allow to get along without exchanging the battery. You could give it a try. As I could only test it on a SPARCstation 20 so far, I'd be interested if it also runs on a SPARCstation 5 out of the box.
:Indy: :O2: :Octane: :Octane2: :O200: = :O200: - :O200: = :O200: (O200 cluster w/2 GIGAchannel cabinets)
[ ( hp ) ] c3000 (dead) c3700 c3750 c8000 :hpserv: (J5600) rp2470 :rx2600: (rx2620) rx4640
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C O B A L T Qube 2 Qube 3 RaQ RaQ 2 RaQ 4r RaQ XTR
johnnym wrote:
tux wrote: [...] NVRAM battery is dead and I have to set the NVRAM values at the ok prompt before booting if I want to have proper network connectivity. [...]

I've created an expect script which does the reprogramming automatically , which could allow to get along without exchanging the battery. You could give it a try. As I could only test it on a SPARCstation 20 so far, I'd be interested if it also runs on a SPARCstation 5 out of the box.


Thanks johnnym, I'll give it a try.
Tux
:Fuel: asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2: speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2: moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2: Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy: ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
:Indigo2IMP: Iris - R10k 195 MHz, Max Impact, 512 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci