Sun Enterprise 3500 server boot/video issue

From: A Doxtater (adoxx_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:20:17 -0800

Greetings to all the Sun gurus out there!
I've got a small (well, maybe not so small) problem and I was wondering if
someone might be able to lend some insight.

I've just inhereted a Sun Enterprise 3500 server (4 processors and from
what I can tell 1GB RAM) and know little about its operation. Tonight I
powered it up to get a better idea of what I've got, and even though it
powered on, fans kicked in, and the hard drive spins up, I get no video at
all. No beep codes, no error signals of any kind. Just no video. I
reseated all of the cards in the back to make sure that wasn't the issue
and it still acts the same. Then I pulled an old PCI video card from stock
and installed it into the system... same issue. No video.

Like I said, I don't know much about this system at all (read _zero_) si U
am at a loss and wanted to know if anyone else out there has seen this
before, or maybe this is normal and I am just an idiot ;-) Either way any
insight is appreciated. Where do I start with troubleshooting if indeed it
is a problem? What would be the logical order of things? This hardware is
forgeign to me, but I'm no stranger to hardware in general so if you have
some pointers, I can follow. no need to hold my hand!

Thanks in advance for any advice!
AMD

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