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Sun Blade[tm] 150: Repair Procedures

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
 
Secondary Hard Drive
 
7.3.3
  • 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
  • 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
 

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