SunBlade 2000.... doesn't power on

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

I a "new in the box" SunBlade 2000... doesn't power on.

Plug in the power supply, you hear the power supply make an audible
click... but
pressing the power button on the front does nothing.

Anyone with some SunBlade 2000 experience care to point me in the right
direction as to where to best start looking ?

If a power supply is a likely candidate... as I understand it the U80,
SB1000, and
SB2000 all used the same supply... if this is so, anyone have an extra
power supply
for one ?

Thanks,

-- Curt
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[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

It was the side cover intrusion switch.... the piece of plastic on the
side cover is broken
off and was not pusing on the intrusion switch !

Other than that broken piece of plastic, a broken retaining 'clip' for
the top plastic,
and the handle of the power supply which took a hard hit (presumably
during shipping),
this thing is M I N T mint....

I bought it as new on the box.... and this system has never been used...
no dust,
drive boots up having me pick Solaris 8 or Solaris 9.... nice...

1G of RAM, 1 CPU, DVD Drive, Floppy Drive, and Smart Card reader.... now
just need
to locate another CPU and another Gig of RAM for it :-)

-- Curt


Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:

> I a "new in the box" SunBlade 2000... doesn't power on.
>
> Plug in the power supply, you hear the power supply make an audible
> click... but
> pressing the power button on the front does nothing.
>
> Anyone with some SunBlade 2000 experience care to point me in the right
> direction as to where to best start looking ?
>
> If a power supply is a likely candidate... as I understand it the U80,
> SB1000, and
> SB2000 all used the same supply... if this is so, anyone have an extra
> power supply
> for one ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Curt
> _______________________________________________
> rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue

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[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

Oh, this unit has 20'02 and "twenty years of innovation" on the plastic
around the
front lit Sun Logo....  do all SB2000s have that ?

-- Curt


Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:

> It was the side cover intrusion switch.... the piece of plastic on the
> side cover is broken
> off and was not pusing on the intrusion switch !
>
> Other than that broken piece of plastic, a broken retaining 'clip' for
> the top plastic,
> and the handle of the power supply which took a hard hit (presumably
> during shipping),
> this thing is M I N T mint....
> I bought it as new on the box.... and this system has never been
> used... no dust,
> drive boots up having me pick Solaris 8 or Solaris 9.... nice...
>
> 1G of RAM, 1 CPU, DVD Drive, Floppy Drive, and Smart Card reader....
> now just need
> to locate another CPU and another Gig of RAM for it :-)
>
> -- Curt
>
>
> Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
>> I a "new in the box" SunBlade 2000... doesn't power on.
>>
>> Plug in the power supply, you hear the power supply make an audible
>> click... but
>> pressing the power button on the front does nothing.
>>
>> Anyone with some SunBlade 2000 experience care to point me in the right
>> direction as to where to best start looking ?
>>
>> If a power supply is a likely candidate... as I understand it the
>> U80, SB1000, and
>> SB2000 all used the same supply... if this is so, anyone have an
>> extra power supply
>> for one ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -- Curt
>> _______________________________________________
>> rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
> _______________________________________________
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[Jonathan Patschke]

On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:

> Oh, this unit has 20'02 and "twenty years of innovation" on the plastic
> around the front lit Sun Logo....  do all SB2000s have that ?

Nope, it was a limited edition, and quite a budget-buster seven years ago:

     http://sun.systemnews.com/fullsource?article=6135

--
Jonathan Patschke  ) "A lawn mower drifting down to earth via a parachute
Elgin, TX         (   is a spinning top."
USA                )               --Kevin B. Murphy in sci.astro.amateur
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[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

Jonathan Patschke wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
>
>> Oh, this unit has 20'02 and "twenty years of innovation" on the
>> plastic around the front lit Sun Logo....  do all SB2000s have that ?
>
> Nope, it was a limited edition, and quite a budget-buster seven years
> ago:
>
>     http://sun.systemnews.com/fullsource?article=6135
>

Hrm.... mine is quite different from the specs there...

I have 1 900Mhz Cu processor
I have 1G of RAM
I don't have the SunPC card
I only have 1 72G Drive
Video card is PGX64

So... unless they offered lesser configs of this, or all SB2000's have
that twentieth
anniversary badging (what little I find is confusing... talking about  
SB1000s are
now SB2000s, etc), then when this was relatively new, someone swapped in
lesser
SB2000 parts (while still new) for the new parts in this one....
including swapping out
blanking plates, cpu block off plate, etc... as inside this unit looked
untouched, not
a spec of dust.

I have the original box (a bit hacked up), is there any data from the
box or from the
computer that I can use to verify the specs of this unit as sold ?  
(I'll go through
the two small boxes that were in the large one and see if any original
paperwork
indicating configuration is in there)

Would love to max out the CPUs and RAM... but doubt I can afford to do
that :-(
(uses 1G DIMMs, right ?).  CPUs max out at 1200 ?

-- Curt
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[Sanford Barton]

My sunblade 2k has the same config and the 20'02 badging.  Dual 900s
and xvr-1200 graphics.  I added my own SunPCI III and the boot disk is
36gb which I supplemented with a 73gb.


On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.
<rescue@...> wrote:

> Jonathan Patschke wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, this unit has 20'02 and "twenty years of innovation" on the plastic
>>> around the front lit Sun Logo....  do all SB2000s have that ?
>>
>> Nope, it was a limited edition, and quite a budget-buster seven years ago:
>>
>>    http://sun.systemnews.com/fullsource?article=6135
>>
> Hrm.... mine is quite different from the specs there...
>
> I have 1 900Mhz Cu processor
> I have 1G of RAM
> I don't have the SunPC card
> I only have 1 72G Drive
> Video card is PGX64
>
> So... unless they offered lesser configs of this, or all SB2000's have that
> twentieth
> anniversary badging (what little I find is confusing... talking about
>  SB1000s are
> now SB2000s, etc), then when this was relatively new, someone swapped in
> lesser
> SB2000 parts (while still new) for the new parts in this one.... including
> swapping out
> blanking plates, cpu block off plate, etc... as inside this unit looked
> untouched, not
> a spec of dust.
>
> I have the original box (a bit hacked up), is there any data from the box

or
> from the
> computer that I can use to verify the specs of this unit as sold ?  (I'll
go

> through
> the two small boxes that were in the large one and see if any original
> paperwork
> indicating configuration is in there)
>
> Would love to max out the CPUs and RAM... but doubt I can afford to do that
> :-(
> (uses 1G DIMMs, right ?).  CPUs max out at 1200 ?
>
> -- Curt
> _______________________________________________
> rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue

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[Jonathan Patschke]

On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:

> So... unless they offered lesser configs of this, or all SB2000's have
> that twentieth anniversary badging

I can verify that not all SB2000s have the twentieth anniversary badging.
The ones at $ork do not.

--
Jonathan Patschke  ) "A lawn mower drifting down to earth via a parachute
Elgin, TX         (   is a spinning top."
USA                )               --Kevin B. Murphy in sci.astro.amateur
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