Corrupted Bios: System Does Not Perform Post; Headphone Volume Might Be Too Loud; Rom Initialization Error Occurs When Raid Is Enabled For On-Board Sata Drives - Sun Microsystems Ultra 27 Product Notes

Corrupted BIOS: System Does Not Perform POST

An interrupted or failed BIOS update, might result in a corrupted BIOS, which could cause the
system to fail POST and not boot. To resolve this, you must recover the BIOS by performing the
following BIOS recovery procedure. This procedure will be added to the Sun Ultra 27
Workstation Service Manual.
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To Perform BIOS Recovery Procedure
Copy the file /BIOS/RELEASED_BIOS/xxx/xxx.ROM from the Tools and Drivers DVD to the root
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directory of a USB flash drive.
where xxx is the BIOS version number (for example, 102 or 103).
On the flash drive, rename the file xxx.ROM to AMIBOOT.ROM.
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Insert USB flash drive into an available USB port on the workstation.
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Power on the workstation, press and hold the Ctrl + Home keys, and watch the USB flash drive's
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access light.
When the flash drive's access light starts to blink, release the keys.
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Follow the onscreen instructions to recover system BIOS.
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Headphone Volume Might Be Too Loud

Possible hearing loss. Listening to headphones and earphones with the equalizer on or
Caution –
near the maximum setting can cause excessive sound pressure levels, which might cause
hearing loss.
Excessive sound pressure from earphones and headphones can cause hearing loss. Adjusting
the equalizer to the maximum setting increases the earphone and headphone sound pressure
output voltage, and therefore the sound pressure level.
ROM Initialization Error Occurs When RAID is Enabled
for On-board SATA Drives
Enabling RAID for the on-board SATA drives with a U320 SCSI card installed might cause the
card to function incorrectly and the following BIOS error message to appear:
Chapter 1 • Hardware and Software Issues
Hardware and BIOS Issues
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