11 Oct
2007
11 Oct
'07
11:09 a.m.
It's often helpful to hook up a serial console - all SGI's that I've revived
(including Purple, but not Teal I2's) have worked without a graphics card,
with a 9600 n81 serial console hooked up. It should go into a PROM console
on the serial port, even with no drives or graphics card, at which point
you'll be able to at least do some diagnostics.
HTH,
Mike
On 10/11/07, Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz at freebsd.org> wrote:
I just got a "teal" SGI Indigo 2. Problem is, I get no graphics output.
When I turn it on, the LEDs on keyboard flash once, the LED on the I2
turns
on, after two seconds turns off, then turns on again and stays turned on.
I hear the boot tune. Monitor is SGI 20E21, connected via 13W3 cable,
but it gets no signal (or at least no sync) from the machine.
Manual says something about "dissonant piano chord" - how is it supposed
to sound like? One thing I've verified that without graphics card
the chord sounds the same.
NumLock LED on the keyboard does not light when i press that key.
Is there some way to reset the NVRAM or something like this?
Note that there are no SCSI disks installed - the bays are empty.
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