[mopar5150]

A Dallas that isn't dead dead should still work fine. The battery can be shot as long as the chip itself works.

Maybe try rerunning the POD mode commands without the IO9, then run enableall, update and reset from the PROM to see how the system reacts?

Now that's an IDEA!

KOKOBOI:
Where did you get this Dallas and do you still have your OLD dallas?  If your Dallas is FAKE...could this happen?  Kaigan is right, a dead Dallas battery on a working Dallas IC will work fine with power...use that as a troubleshooting guide.  I've personally NEVER seen a "dead" Dallas Chip (not working), only a dead battery...your L1 keeps trying to make alterations to NVRAM, I assume UNsuccessfully.  Perhaps this could be the reason? 

I know you said things were still a problem with your OLD L1 Dallas, but try the old one with NEW snaphat on IO9 anyway and try reset procedure again.  See if there is a difference.

Let us Know.


ALSO, there was an experiment not long ago from jwhat that proved a Tezro will happily accept a BLANK L1 Dallas...but will NOT ACCEPT, NOR ERASE, a USED DALLAS!  So there are two options there. Either use a dallas that was drilled with a battery and remove the battery to blank it, two use a programmer to "erase" the old NVRAM data through programming commands.  If you got a USED dallas instead of the blank one, the Tezro would reject it with serial errors, though I didn't see that in your output you posted.

 I am not sure how different the desk Tezro is to the rack one, but I bought several rack Tezros that were all missing the Dallas chips. I put in some used ones I had from old O350s and all came up and worked.  I bought some new Dallas chips that were same part number, slightly bigger and had a slightly different pin spacing that worked once I used a socket to adapt them.  I was able to the the "clear, init, flush" reset procedure and then assign a serial number. 

 On a separate note, I have seen a V10 card with a bad env chip cause the same errors you are seeing.

I have extra known good used Dallas chips so I could send you one if you wanted too try that.