Hi All,
I tried this one via SunHelp / Rescue but so far with luck, so let's see if someone here has an idea:
I recently acquired cheap a Sun Ultra 40 that was on an early firmware.
With some help I managed to find bios version 1.50 and successfully updated my Ultra 40 M2.
Initially it worked fine but not too long after the update it seems to have mysteriously developed an unsolvable 'error 211 Keyboard error' on startup, basically stopping the machine from booting past the initial bios screen. The error pops up along with the hint to press F1 to resume or F2 to enter the bios but the keystrokes don't produce any result.
I tried 2 different keyboards (in addition to the microsoft keyboard that I was using initially and worked fine before), cleaning out the usb ports, resetting the cmos via the motherboardb jumper and replacing the motherboard battery, all without success. As part of these experiments the machine was also disconnected from power for an hour or so.
To be clear, the error also pops up when nothing at all is connected to the computer, so with all USB ports empty. No change when using either of the back or the front USB's and different keyboard combo's.
If anybody has any hints or further tricks to try to shock the workstation to ignore this error that would be excellent!
Failing a solution the machine is essentially useless.
Thanks in advance!
JP
I tried this one via SunHelp / Rescue but so far with luck, so let's see if someone here has an idea:
I recently acquired cheap a Sun Ultra 40 that was on an early firmware.
With some help I managed to find bios version 1.50 and successfully updated my Ultra 40 M2.
Initially it worked fine but not too long after the update it seems to have mysteriously developed an unsolvable 'error 211 Keyboard error' on startup, basically stopping the machine from booting past the initial bios screen. The error pops up along with the hint to press F1 to resume or F2 to enter the bios but the keystrokes don't produce any result.
I tried 2 different keyboards (in addition to the microsoft keyboard that I was using initially and worked fine before), cleaning out the usb ports, resetting the cmos via the motherboardb jumper and replacing the motherboard battery, all without success. As part of these experiments the machine was also disconnected from power for an hour or so.
To be clear, the error also pops up when nothing at all is connected to the computer, so with all USB ports empty. No change when using either of the back or the front USB's and different keyboard combo's.
If anybody has any hints or further tricks to try to shock the workstation to ignore this error that would be excellent!
Failing a solution the machine is essentially useless.
Thanks in advance!
JP
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