Yes they can be reworked, however, the battery will eventually leak :( and
screw up your board. The crystal is in the top with the battery so you
have to be careful.
On 3/9/11 3:24 PM, "Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
I fired up my Sun Ultra 5 the other day to install a
bigger SCSI HD and
noticed its NVRAM is dead (FF for ethernet address, serial number changes each
reboot).
Anybody know a source of cheap replacement NVRAM chips (can they be reworked
like a Dallas RTC chip?), and how do you reprogram them?