18 Sep
2006
18 Sep
'06
7:23 a.m.
Josh Dersch wrote:
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.
Is this a 4D/35? (I've gone and deleted the original email now!)
If so...
ISTR that the ones with the better graphics options had a small fan over one
of the chips, and some info on the web suggested that this was prone to
failure. Worth a check.
I'd got the impression that lots of them had the graphics upgraded after
purchase, but they weren't also treated to the better chassis fan that the
factory machines had - resulting in the machine slowly cooking itself :(
Hopefully that's not the case with yours...
cheers
Jules