This section provides the most common repair procedures for the
Sun Fire V480. The following procedures with their corresponding page numbers
are located in the 
Sun
Fire V480 Parts Installation and Removal Guide (816-0907).
| Component |
Remove
|
Install
|
Tips |
| Centerplane |
131
|
134
|
- Sun Fire V480 system may experience a fatal reset and reboot with
"ERROR: System "FATAL RESET" from DAR/DCS/CDX" (FCO A0226-1).
|
| CPU/Memory Board |
74
|
76
|
- Guidelines for understanding and diagnosing UltraSPARC III Level 2
(L2) SRAM Cache Memory Errors (FIN I0887-1).
- UltraSPARC III and III+ based platforms could be susceptible to UCC
errors that may cause system panics (FIN I0856-1)
|
| Disk Drive |
53
|
55
|
-
Improved firmware for Seagate 10K.6 disk drives will reduce the incidence of unexpected outages due to a spindle motor issue (FIN I1136-1).
- Power management issue causes loss of access to internal fiber channel
disks on the Sun Blade 1000/2000, Sun Fire V880, V480, and 280R (FIN
I0888-1).
- Invalid Device structure found after disk removal when under Volume
Manager 3.2 Control (FIN I0854-3).
|
| Disk Drive (Hot-Plug Operation) |
57
|
60
|
- Power management issue causes loss of access to internal fiber channel
disks on the Sun Blade 1000/2000, Sun Fire V880, V480, and 280R (FIN
I0888-1).
|
| DVD-ROM Drive |
129
|
130
|
|
| Fan Tray 0 |
63
|
65
|
|
| Fan Tray 1 |
93
|
95
|
|
| FC-AL Backplane |
122
|
124
|
|
| IDPROM Module |
118
|
119
|
|
| Memory Modules |
82
|
85
|
- Sun Fire V480 and V880 systems configured with certain DIMMs may not pass POST
with multiple DIMM errors. (FIN I1171-1).
- Best Practices Guide for Memory Errors for diagnosing UltraSPARC III
memory errors now available (FIN I1018-1).
- Diagnosing Main Memory errors versus L2SRAM errors on UltraSPARC III
and UltraSPARC III Cu systems (FIN I0954-1).
-
Too many Memory DIMMs are being unnecessarily replaced on the
UltraSPARC II, III, III+, IIIi and, IV families of systems,
increasing customers' service actions and related system downtime.
(FIN I0760-2).
- Systems containing 256MB Samsung B-die DIMMs, having a module date
code between 0115 and 0127 (built between weeks 15 and 27 of 2001),
may experience Uncorrectable Memory Errors (UE). This can lead to System
Panics (FCO A0223-1).
|
| PCI Card |
101
|
104
|
- Sun Fire V480 USB cable may not connect to the bottom USB port if
certain PCI cards are installed in PCI Slot 0 (FIN I1060-1).
- Sun Fire V480 systems using a specific configuration may unexpectedly
reset (FIN I1016-1).
- Certain 1Gb PCI Dual FC Network Adapter+ (X6727A HBA)
may cause internal disks of Sun Fire V480/V880 to not
be recognized on boot or cause the FC loop B (HBA Port 1)
to be unstable (FCO A0240-1).
|
| Power Distribution Board |
137
|
140
|
|
| Power Supply |
47
|
50
|
|
| Removable Media Assembly |
125
|
127
|
|
| RSC Card |
97
|
99
|
|
| Graphics Card |
|
|
- XVR-600 graphics card can cause rendering performance issue when
performing simultaneous rendering update with OpenGL windows. (FIN I1161-1).
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