18 Sep
2006
18 Sep
'06
12:33 a.m.
Thanks for the tips. This morning the machine actually booted to the
IRIX login screen but crashed to a black screen as soon as I tried to do
anything graphics-intensive, so it looks like your assessments are
correct, it's definitely a sporadic hardware failure.
I went through and cleaned out the machine before I powered it on the
first time (it was quite dirty); and I reseated everything that was
socketed. I'll try running diagnostics on it sometime this week and see
if it tells me anything.
Thanks!
Josh
Jochen Kunz wrote:
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:17:19 -0700
"r.stricklin" <bear at typewritten.org> wrote:
This suggests to me a hardware problem with the
graphics display
hardware.
Seconded. Sometimes it helps this old hardware to be "kreidlered".
I.e.
disassemble the whole machine, reaseat all PCBs and connectors and try
again. (Sometimes connectors get a litle bit of corrosion etc. that is
cleand out by un- and repluging the connector.)
I suggest trying to start the system single user
so you can
poke at the console miniport,
My knowledge on those old SGI stiff is limited. At least 6.5 had
diagnostics that you can run to fsck the hardware...