After sniffing the PCBs for a minute or so like bomb
dog looking for a burned
resistor or cap.... I got to thinking that the PCBs are bigger than I
remembered. Better than I remembered.
Found the fried component! A surface mount yellow rectangular capacitor
mounted on the bottom of the CPU board, somewhat near the audio DAC
section. I wonder if all the similar caps that are on the bottom should be
replaced. Maybe one went bad, but if one went then the others might be at
risk as well.
After removing the PSU to open it up, I found that it's the R4K model
power supply (Yay!) and there doesn't seem to be anything fried in it.
One odd thing, and I can't remember my SGI enough. I get the TOD clock
error on the Indigo, and I get no startup chime tune sound. It had kind of
a sputtering tick from the speaker (perhaps the fried cap is in the audio
section.) Anyone know if the chime should play before the time of day
clock error?
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Ethan O'Toole