RE: [cobalt-users] erase eeprom[please help]

["Phil Beynon" <Infolink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> take a look at ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/users/thockin/ Tim is
> the kernel
> and eeprom guy at SunCobalt
>
> He is awesome - anyone else: please don't flood him with
> requests, features,
> 2.4 etc if you want to play with 2.4 on a Cobalt and you have a
> RaQ to hurt
> yourself with then take a look at his area above he gives you all the info
> you will ever need to break your raq (in his words 'honey where's my
> soldering iron')
>
> > While testing the Raq3's Rom mode menu, I erased EEPROM in Bank
> > after that, Raq3 wouldn't work
> > How can I do?
> > please answer me how to recover the Raq3's EEPROM
> >
>
> Hope this helps but I suspect you won't have the external eeprom
> burner that
> I think you will need.
>
> Gavin
>
> ps you didn't hear it from me but I suspect if you do an RMA with Sun they
> will just find your motherboard faulty and replace it. presuming that its
> under a year old.
>

And assuming they don't read postings on here! :-)

Actually there sort of is a way around having an external burner but there
are a few IFs associated with it.
IF you have a dual BIOS mainboard & IF it uses the same EEPROM & IF you had
the binary file it should in theory be possible to disable the checking and
reload it that way.
Dunno if this is useful - and I'm not taking responsibility for any
"effects" caused. But I have rescued a couple of PC mainboards this way over
the years.

Phil
Quite happy with soldering irons!

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