Hi all, I finally managed to put my hands on a nextstation color. Since i don t have a soundbox it took me a while until i could test the machine.
Once I got the cables ready, I finally managed to start the next ( new battery btw) and the most beautiful "booting from network " screen appeared on my Dell monitor ( happiest man on earth).
I turned it off to prepare a proper nextstep image for the zuluscsi.
When I tried the next day , the nextstaion did not boot and the led in the motherboard was blinking in series of 4 blinks.
Since then, I have tried replacing all the simms, reseating the rom, replacing the capacitors,... without any change. If i remove all the simms I get 5 blinks.
I also tried to connect via the serial connector A but I don't get any data, i have tried different speeds etc but nothing.
I'd appreciate any tips, ideas, or even wild guesses ! Thanks in advance.
These are the blink codes defined in the firmware:
/* EKG LED blink counts */
#define BLINK_CRC1 1
#define BLINK_CRC2 2
#define BLINK_VRAM 3
#define BLINK_NVRAM 4
#define BLINK_DRAM 5 /* No DRAM in system */
#define BLINK_MACHINE 6 /* unknown machine type */
So 4 would indicate an NVRAM problem, 5 is expected if you remove all SIMMs.
Did you try pulling the battery?
Thank you both for the quick response.
This morning the NexT was not even starting which definitely was pointing towards the battery.
I was using a cr2032 with an adapter , tried other combinations but no reaction. I replaced it with a cr123 and... tadaaaah no more blinks and the booting from network screen was back 🎉