Correct me if I am wrong, but NVRAM is non-volatile RAM, i.e. it doesnt need power to retain its contents.
If that is failing, I would suspect something worse than a dud battery. On 27 December 2012 11:52, Wilkinson, Alex <[email protected]>wrote: > 0n Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 09:09:48AM +1100, Joseph Mays wrote: > > >Got a used 7206 I am trying to bring back to life. It seems to be > able to > >read the PCMCIA card in the slot okay, but after a power cycle it > loses > >config and claims the NVRAM is corrupt, throwing me to rommon. From > there I > >can tell it to boot from disk0 and it boots alright from the PCMCIA > card > >into the default config. Needless to say, any config I have entered > gets > >lost. Which NVRAM is it referring to? The 4 meg on the motherboard? Is > >there anyway to clear and reset that, or does it just need to be > replaced? > > > >Warning: monitor nvram area is corrupt ... using default values C7200 > >platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory > > > >[after a power cycle....] > > > >System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(4r)B, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) TAC > Support: > >http://www.cisco.com/tac Copyright (c) 2002 by cisco Systems, Inc. > > > >Warning: monitor nvram area is corrupt ... using default values C7200 > >platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory > > > >rommon 1 > boot disk0 > > > I have seen a very similar hardware bug on 65K-SUP720s: > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/ts/fn/200/fn27595.html > > -Alex > > ************** IMPORTANT MESSAGE ***************************** > This e-mail message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains > information which may be > confidential. > If you are not the intended recipient please advise the sender by return > email, do not use or > disclose the contents, and delete the message and any attachments from > your system. Unless > specifically indicated, this email does not constitute formal advice or > commitment by the sender > or the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ABN 48 123 123 124) or its > subsidiaries. > We can be contacted through our web site: commbank.com.au. > If you no longer wish to receive commercial electronic messages from us, > please reply to this > e-mail by typing Unsubscribe in the subject line. > ************************************************************** > > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
