W2100z power-on and keyboard issue

My w2100z is having power-on issue, probably due to mal-funtioning USB/keyboard.
Sometimes it stays at black window forever after power-on, when it does reach the bios screen, it reports keyboard error.
The keyboard doesn't receive any power from the box (no light).
Solaris crashes immediately during boot, reporting some kind of unrecoverable machine check error.
I supppose it's during attaching some device driver.
I tried different keyboard on each every USB port, same result.
Without USB/keybord, this $3000+ box is useless (OS can't boot, can't install new OS).
It is out of warranty now, that's why I am posting here, or can I buy new warranty for one year and get this fixed?
Please give me some idea, Thanks!

Michael,
I would recommend to re-post on the Solaris x86 yahoo
group.Just did that.
While is a hardware issue, there are far more Sun
employees that may be able (and willing) to "ask
around" among their colleagues.I hope so.
With a SPARC based Sun, one would just attach to the
(serial) console port and diagnose the system ....yes, yes.
Did you follow the Troubleshooting Procedures from
the User's Guide (e.g. reseating DIMMs/add-in boards,
booting from the Sun Java Workstation W1100z and
W2100z Supplemental CD to run the Pc-Check
Diagnostics) ?I did try to clean up the internals, make sure everthing is seated well.
As for the diag, the CD waits for keyboard input to choose from the top menu !
Thanks for your reply.
Tao

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