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Trying to fix Sun Microsystems Equipment
Trying to fix Sun Microsystems Equipment
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Taking a look at a broken SunPCI III Pro, Sun Ray 270, and Sun Ray 2FS to see if we can repair them.
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Seeing the inside of that 2100 makes me appreciate the interiors of laptops right now. I'm a dell field tech and the inside of that makes the insides of current laptops look empty. I remember taking apart my HP Pavillion dv9700 back in 2010, still don't like taking apart laptops, never liked the plastic clips keeping the covers in place. Unfortunately most of my jobs are laptops even though I specialize in server repairs.
Just a thought, are the sun thinclient "faceplates" interchangeable? maybe you can source a non working but nice looking version for very cheap and replace the broken faceplate? If this dosent work – I think it was superglue and baking soda making it even stronger and you could sand and repaint it 😀
and seriously, get yourself some spudgers
SunRay 270: There is a VGA input on that board, those thin clients obviously have a monitor function in addition to the thin client. Check if there is a way to switch the input back to the thin client.
Surface mounted electrolytic caps are time bombs
why would this SunPCi board be so picky about CPU?
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For the SunPCI III Pro, try cleaning the PCI connector fingers. They look badly oxidized in spots. I was waiting for you to do this and disappointed that it was never addressed, but I know from experience that sometimes it's the most simple things that get overlooked when troubleshooting.
That Linksys stack is pretty, in a mid-2000s tech way.
Are there other avenues into the X86 board? Like can it be powered in this slot with its own monitor and keyboard so you can see what is happening to it? Does it have any PCI/ISA expansion; perhaps something you can shoehorn a diag board with 7 segment LEDs for boot codes? I don't really know how much special sauce they've put into the BIOS or any other subsystem on this board but it could be interesting. If you do not have the ability, perhaps a colab with another youtuber might be in order. Ask them to flash a new BIOS to a chip for you, if you are suspecting that to be an issue. There might be a website out there with this BIOS saved for posterity.
Something I would try in addition to recapping, is a BIOS reset or clear CMOS jumper if it has one.
Might want to consider investing or building a dim bulb test socket.
No meter? No scope? Let me guess, software geek? 😂
Part of me yearns for the day when laptops (and cellphones too) had user removable and replaceable batteries.
What about the other RAM slot on the X86 board? The video looks like you just used that same slot with different RAM sticks?
I have spread this video out over multiple days just so it can feel longer haha. Love the sun content.
wait that card is meant for a back plain right? i thought they would not work inside a computer? also have the same sunfire v240 great machine.
2000's and earlier laptops are such a pain to take apart. I tried to take my 2004 HP apart and even after removing about 87 screws and a dozen panels I couldn't even get to the DC barrel jack. I think one of the steps involved removing the display and it's associated cabling and I just NOPE'd out of that endeavour. Honestly surprised the disassembly instructions didn't involve reducing the components down to their base chemical elements. "Step 4,371: Harvest all the copper from the mainboard before continuing to next step."
Thankfully in the last 10 years or so, laptop makers realized that their machines didn't have to be built like a 5 layer lasagna and now almost everything can be reached after removing a handful of screws and prying off a bottom plate.
I still can't get over how cool those SunRay workstations are! I know Windows has Terminal Services that works KINDA similar, but I gained a good deal of experience with that working for H&R Block about 13 years ago, and that experience was VERY poor. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'd bet you could do something similar to the sunray with linux and some of those Chromebox linux conversions. Think I should look into that, actually! Would be really nice to have a terminal in my garage.
Thank you very much for re-uploading a video with Sun Microsystems content.👏👏 I hope you manage to figure out the problem with the PCI card and the AMD Athlon processor.💪
At least you were able to fix the 2FS thin client.😃 Very curious that it belonged to Oracle Japan itself.🤨
P.S. treat yourself to some old guitar plectrums, they make great prying tools.
Have you actually measured the rail voltages on the X86 board? Also, if its regular PCI-64, can't you put it in a donor X86 machine without fear of damaging the host.
Cool shirt. I visited Connections Museum earlier this year and long story short I can't wait to get back to Seattle so I can visit again! There is just so much to see.
On Video is not visible is you connected the Athlon CPUs into the socket. Did you slide the CPU in the socket? (it's not enough to just drop them in the socket, sliding is important and not easy)
also wait what, the thin client has a sim slot??
These things are so cool. Well done bud.
we need to get this guy a set of ifixit spudgers
I may be totally off, but is that ZIF socket one where you drop the chip in and then slide it down like… 1/2 a mm to engage the pins? There was also one you needed to use a screwdriver blade in the little ears to engage but it's hard to see if this might be that.
Have you tried it on Solaris 9? Maybe the Errors are because the solaris version is too new.
I remember those Athlon XP CPUs being able to fry themselves by heat. They had no built in protection from overheating so booting one without proper cooling they died from heat pretty quick. Hope you get that SunPCI III working!
Better using plastic to pry plastic. If you have the iFixit kit, you have plastic pry too and plastic plectrum.
That was my first laptop! I miss that Compaq, wish I'd held onto it.