> Sadly there seems to be almost no documentation available in the net for a > Sparcbook 2, neither a technical/service nor a user manual, only for > Sparcbook 1 and later models.
I do have a SPARCbook 2 and its printed documentation; however the ``Technical Reference Manual'' was not bundled with the machine and had to be ordered separately from Tadpole, and I don't have a copy of it. > - the battery pack is missing. > I found two ressources, e.g. the CHM - but none does have any infos about > the battery pack There are no details about the battery in the manual, except that they are made of ``the latest generation of Nickel Cadmium batteries'', where latest means 1992. > - After connecting the fitting power the Sparcbook does power up, the > display is lit and the unit is trying to boot from the internat SCSI disc. > Nevertheless the boot process is failing this is a good sign. > > - after trying to reboot the unit will be almost dead. While pressing the > power on button the LEDs on the left upper side of the display will be lit > shortly, but nothing else will happen. Upon initial power up, can you interrupt the boot process by pressing a key, and asking for diagnostics? (option 4 in the menu) You might also want to connect a serial terminal (9600 8N1), there should be diagnostics messages on it if the display does not initialize. HTH, Miod
