15 Jan
2016
15 Jan
'16
2:52 p.m.
Thanks for the comments.
All this SGI discussion has me wanting to go out and hunt down a Fuel even more.
It sounds like I need to focus on finding one with a rev-4 or better power supply.
Its been some time since I have personally done any soldering.
There's got to be some place, for a fee, that knows about and can repair SGI
power supplies.
Jerry
On 01/15/16 03:26 PM, Mazzini Alessandro wrote:
Sadly yes, there's a known issue with psu in
fuels. I have one that went
kaboom after 20 minutes and lies waiting for a psu since months (and will
lie that way, I guess. I'm looking at it in a sad way near daily...).
Long story short, Fuel psu were made by 3 different brands, and each of them
had ... longevity issues... in what we could say being revision 1 to 3.
From 4 upward (and if I'm mistaken , at worst
was from 3 upward) they tend
to be resistant.
Exploding issues aside, those psu are not standard and have a chip doing
some mumbo jumbo inside (all lines are monitored, by example). That chip can
.. erase itself... ( in the upper mentioned revisions, for sure ). There are
no known dumps of the chip firmware.