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From: mmm!us214777@uc.msc.umn.edu (John C. Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: watchdog reset
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 19 Aug 89 03:33:26 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 98, message 9 of 15

In article <718@brazos.Rice.edu> titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu!kam@cs.utexas.edu (Katherine Minister Hosch) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 91, message 16 of 16
>
>Howdy all.  This has happened twice now, and I'm starting to get a little
>worried.  We have a standalone 4/260 that crashed the other day, leaving
>only the message (on the console):
>
>	> watchdog reset
>

Don't know if this will help but...  Our SUN 3/160 gets a watchdog reset
trying to boot if I do not have the VME box at the other end of the VME
repeater (Bit 3 brand) powered up.  Once the SUN has booted, I can power
the remote VME system up and down.

Perhaps you might want to try removing extra hardware and then rearranging
the boards in the backplane.  Stranger things have worked.