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Old 01-16-2008, 12:59 PM
Lyle Merdan
 
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Default Re: SUN PCI III card -- Red LED blinking

In comp.sys.sun.admin Milagro <test@noplace.com> wrote:
: Hello all,

: I recently installed a SUN PCI III card into my Blade 100. I put Win2k on
: the card and created a 10gb virtual drive. The card "boots" up with no
: problem and I'm able to get on the network. However, I have two small
: problems.

: 1. When I am *not* running the sunpci software, the Red LED light on the
: card blinks constantly. I can't find much info on what this diagnostic light
: might mean. Has anyone had similar problems?

: 2. I notice when I'm running certain programs on the card (i-tunes for one),
: the screen redraw is a bit slow. It's not unacceptable but it's definitely
: slower then what I would think an AMD 1.4ghz chip should do. I'm going to
: try and plug the monitor directly into the cards video-out. Any one had this
: happen to them as well?


: Thanks very much

: Mike
: mshavel@optonline.net

For question #1 I don't know.

For #2 I have seen this on my SunPCI-2 card. Some dialog boxes like the
shutdown buttons screen with draw REALLY slow. I just live with it.

Regards,

Lyle
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