> You know, if the system time is way off, but you're not having to reenter
> all the boot prom stuff at bootup, then there's a good chance that the
> speed of the NVRAM chip is too fast or too slow for your particular Sparc.
> I have several sun4c machines which originally had 150ms NVRAM chips which
> were dead. I replaced them w/ 200ms chips from Mouser and found that
> although the machines will run ok (I did get a "NVRAM self-test failed..."
> message at boot) the system clock was being skewed. Replacing these chips
> w/ new 150ms chips from Maxim solved the problem. A work-around was/is to
> do frequent calls to an ntp server I guess.

I'm already ahead of you! :)

I'm going to make frequent calls to the ntp server at work.

That way I don't have to replace the chip, which considering I got the LX,
the 19" monitor and the CDROM and disks for free, would make the 20
dollars the most expensive part!

Thanks again for all the help!

Tim