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radrob
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 Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject:
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J.J. Fleurke ha scritto:
| Quote: | Just a few minutes ago, my brother used a null-modem cable and we got the
thing running
again. We changed the console variable back to g, via the cable and a
terminal. Now we are
compiling the kernel again.
It's not dead yet!
JJ
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take a look on nekochan sgi community
http://www.nekochan.net/
a good place where drop few lines on sgi relates.
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J.J. Fleurke
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Re: My O2
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Just a few minutes ago, my brother used a null-modem cable and we got the
thing running
again. We changed the console variable back to g, via the cable and a
terminal. Now we are
compiling the kernel again.
It's not dead yet!
JJ
"S.C.Sprong" <scsprong@gmail.com> schreef in bericht
news:41fpdbF1eb3nqU1@individual.net...
| Quote: | J.J. Fleurke <janjaap@fleurke.net.removeme> wrote:
A few weeks ago I bought a O2. [...]
But I made somekind of mistake because if the power is turned on
then the LED on the front goes from green to red.
My question is: is mij o2 toast or can it be fixed?
Hard to tell remotely. According to the O2 reference manual, a red led
signifies a CPU module failure. This failure mode ranges from an
irrepairable
hardware error to an incorrectly seated module. The former requires a
replacement, the latter is relatively harmless and can be easily fixed by
reseating the module.
Be aware that an SGI O2 is rather fragile. Quite a few machines have been
fried by hamfisted hobbyists who mistakenly thought that its parts are
hot swappable. They definitely aren't.
If I were you, I would apply for a free SGI developer support contract,
which entitles you for IRIX updates and access to their tech library.
Locate
"O2 Workstation Hardware Reference Manual",
(document number: 007-3275-002 / published: 1996-12-12)
and walk through the hardware troubleshooting in Chapter 4.
Success!
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S.C.Sprong
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Joined: 21 May 2005
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| Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject:
Re: My O2
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J.J. Fleurke <janjaap@fleurke.net.removeme> wrote:
| Quote: | A few weeks ago I bought a O2. [...]
But I made somekind of mistake because if the power is turned on
then the LED on the front goes from green to red.
My question is: is mij o2 toast or can it be fixed?
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Hard to tell remotely. According to the O2 reference manual, a red led
signifies a CPU module failure. This failure mode ranges from an irrepairable
hardware error to an incorrectly seated module. The former requires a
replacement, the latter is relatively harmless and can be easily fixed by
reseating the module.
Be aware that an SGI O2 is rather fragile. Quite a few machines have been
fried by hamfisted hobbyists who mistakenly thought that its parts are
hot swappable. They definitely aren't.
If I were you, I would apply for a free SGI developer support contract,
which entitles you for IRIX updates and access to their tech library.
Locate
"O2 Workstation Hardware Reference Manual",
(document number: 007-3275-002 / published: 1996-12-12)
and walk through the hardware troubleshooting in Chapter 4.
Success!
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J.J. Fleurke
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Joined: 24 Dec 2005
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My O2
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Greetings,
A few weeks ago I bought a O2. I wanted to install Debian-Linux on it but
that didn't work. So I tried
NetBSD. But I made somekind of mistake because if the power is turned on
then the LED on the front
goes from green to red. The last thing I did was changing: console=d to
console=p in the maintenance
console thing. ("setenv console d") Then I tried to boot from the tftp
server and it hang on me.
My question is: is mij o2 toast or can it be fixed?
J.J. Fleurke |
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