This section provides the most common repair procedures for the
Sun Blade 150. The following procedures with their corresponding section numbers
are located in the 
Sun
Blade 150 Service Manual (816-4379).
| Component |
Remove
|
Replace
|
Tips |
| System Cover |
5.6
|
9.1
|
|
| Power Supply |
6.1
|
6.1.2
|
|
Cable Assemblies
Diskette drive cable
Diskette drive power cable
Primary IDE Cable
Secondary IDE Cable
Smart card reader cable
Power switch/LED |
6.2.1
6.2.3
6.2.5
6.2.7
6.2.9
6.2.11
|
6.2.2
6.2.4
6.2.6
6.2.8
6.2.10
6.2.12
|
- Cannot be ordered separately.
Cable Service Kit covers all system cable assemblies.
|
| Speaker Assembly |
6.3.1
|
6.3.2
|
|
| Fan Assembly |
6.4.1
|
6.4.2
|
|
| Diskette Drive |
7.1.1
|
7.1.2
|
|
| Smart Card Reader II (SCR) |
7.2.1
|
7.2.2
|
- Solaris 8 02/02 also requires these SCR II patches: 109887
Smart card core fixes and 110457
Internal card reader fixes. SMC II requires the installation of Java
Development Kit (JDK) V1.2.2 build 11.
- Page 3 of the Sun
Blade 150 Product Notes (816-1163) describes operational status
of SCR LED.
- Green, non flashing LED indicates smart card (media) is correctly
inserted.
Green, flashing LED indicates data read/write to or from smart card
(media).
Amber, non flashing LED indicates smart card (media) not inserted correctly.
|
| Primary Hard Drive |
7.3.1
|
7.3.2
|
- May experience a system timeout error with mirrored Western Digital
disk drives (FCO A0228-1).
|
| Secondary Hard Drive |
|
7.3.3
|
- May experience a system timeout error with mirrored Western Digital
disk drives (FCO A0228-1).
- Optional secondary drives include the secondary IDE cable.
- Before installing a secondary drive, be sure to jumper for "Cable
Select".
- Find IDE Cabling Configuration information in Appendix A.5.1.
|
| CD-ROM or DVD-ROM Drive |
7.4.1
|
7.4.2
|
- Appendix A.5.2 describes CD-ROM and DVD-ROM jumper settings.
|
| CPU |
8.1.1
|
8.2.2
|
- CPU die temperature reported by 'prtdiag' and 'prtpicl' is incorrect
on Sun Blade 100/150 and is not a supported function (FIN I1021-1).
- A specific group of Sun Blade 150 systems shipped with 650MHz CPUs
which were configured to run at 550MHz (FIN I0967-1).
- Note from Appendix C.5.1: Power on banner, POST and the OpenBoot
PROM report the CPU as an UltraSPARC-IIe[tm] processor. The SunBlade
150 CPU is an UltraSPARC-IIi.
|
| NVRAM/TOD |
8.2.1
|
8.2.2
|
|
| DIMMs |
8.3.1
|
8.3.2
|
- Early Sun Blade 150 systems were manufactured with incorrectly labeled
DIMMs (FIN I0901-1).
- Either 1, 2 or 4 DIMMs must be installed. Always fill connectors [1],
or [1 and 2], or [1,2,3 and 4]. Never fill connectors [1, 2 and 3] without
filling connector [4].
- To identify a failed DIMM, see TABLE 4-2 in section 4.5 of the Service
Manual.
- Memory Architecture information is found in Appendix C.9.
- Also reference the SunBlade 150
DIMM Installation Guide (816-5370).
|
| PCI card |
8.4.1
|
8.4.2
|
- Maximum power consumption for all three PCI connectors is 50 watts.
- Do not install a combination of PCI cards and/or graphics accelerators
that have a combined power consumption of 50 watts or more.
|
| Motherboard |
8.5.1
|
8.5.2
|
|
| Riser Board |
8.6.1
|
8.6.2
|
|
| Graphics Card |
|
|
- XVR-600 graphics card can cause rendering performance issue when
performing simultaneous rendering update with OpenGL windows. (FIN I1161-1).
- When using the Sun XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator window system in 8
bit depth mode, desktop users will experience a colormap flash problem
depending on what application is being displayed (FIN I0968-1).
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