Ok so it was the RAM in the wrong simms sockets. Someone had pulled so simms and what was left (32M) was not in bank starting at 0.... Found out the proper bank scheme in the Sun hardware faq...(lots of reading again...less time with wife and kid....) Now system starts up and tests memory. Reports 48 Megs (added 16 Megs so all normal) but tests just one? Why? So now I can get in the diags and stuff.... But more questions...(maybe ill answer these by myself again...) I have a type5 keyboard and a Mouse Systems Sun Mouse 370-1170-01 But system reports it cant identify the keyboard. I used a MAC/Apple serial cable to connect the kayboard. Leds blink for a second when system turned on but after then I cant toogle the leds on the keyboard keys by pressing the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock etc...keys... What about going a bit further with this? What should I attempt to run on this? You can suppose Ill find 4 more 4M/30pin/parity Simms somewhere here and end up with 64M...(not found yet but looking...) I think 3 chip simms wont work correct? Should I try? Or just hopeless? Also I think the frame buffer is a GX (?) Ill build an adapter for a VGA/SVGA monitor when I find a 3W13 connector somewhere here.... Anyone? Claude Canuk Computer Collector http://computer_collector.tripod.com al Message ----- From: Claude.W To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 9:31 AM Subject: Help me? Sun newbie with non-booting Sparc2...FAILURE: No Trap Taken, Exp Trap Type - 00000009 I am reposting this cause I never got it back so I guess it never made it for some reason... Hi Well I found one, I had been asking for one on the list and got no real offers so I went out to this place and found a sun sparc 2 for $20 canadian as-is. I know it not fast but still...its a sun... Looked complete but was very dirty. Cleaned it off now very nice.... Unit is a SunSparc 2 model 147. Had a floppy, HD Maxtor LXT213SY (200 Megs I guess...), and what looks like 8 X Simms of I am not sure how many megs...nothing hacked or missing... Video card (yup one in there) is a Sun Microsystems S4LEGO (?) I tried hooking up a type5 keyboard I had lying around and a Sun mouse...Keyboard leds lite up and power on and I get a beep but after that...cap lock and other leds will not toogle on/off with pressed...so... I did not have a monitor or adapter to connect a monitor to the frame buffer so... After reading for quite a while in the sun faqs I removed the frame buffer and connected a Wyse60 to serial port A and got: (well at least something' coming out of the serial port...) WARNING : Unable to determine keyboard type FAILURE: No Trap Taken, Exp Trap Type - 00000009 I have repaired lots of logic and computer boards for many years at the component level but know close to nothing about Suns...any help appreciated.... If you can tell me more about this, it would be appreciated... This will be much faster getting answers from someone than reading through tons of Sun hardware faqs I guess... Claude Canuk Computer Collector http://computer_collector.tripod.com