> > Someone mentioned there is a battery. It could be held by that, or a module > from ST Microelectronics or Dallas Semiconductor. The latter two tend to be > plastic packages that are ~28 pins or so and taller than normal chips. The > Dallas and ST modules have RAM/real time clock and a battery in one > package. > > In the case of some arcade games (Silent Scope from Konami is a big one), > once the NVRAM looses it's contents the machine wont load past it in the > bootup process. On the Sun Workstations when the modules go bad it will > boot but but the MAC address is blank. It's possible to reprogram the > contents back on the Sun workstations. > > If the case of the AlphaStation is that it can't get past post without the > contents of the NVRAM, and the NVRAM is in a Dallas or STM module then > the easy solution is to get a dump of a working system, perhaps hex edit the > contents to correct the MAC address, then plug it in (hopefully socketed.) > > If the NVRam is held by a CR3202 battery and a SMD SRAM chip or > something, there would have to be a way around it being blank I'd imagine. >
In my case there is just a CR2032, and no Dallas module. I will try replacing the CR2032 again. Regards Rob
