Thanks for all of the recent assistance regarding cleaning products for my Crimson VGX. A combination of Naptha (in Zippo lighter fluid form) and hot soapy water have cleaned it up a treat. In fact it?s now looking almost as good as new, pics here: http://ozpass.co.uk The system almost boots as well. I don?t have a keyboard for it so I?ve made a null-modem cable with USB adapter for my MacBook and hooked it to the VGX using minicom. This redirects the console to the serial port so I can watch it booting. Currently it?s halting whilst trying to mount an NFS share from a computer called ?Onyx?. I guess I?ll have to edit fstab to remove the offending entry. In other good news I?ve discovered an IRIX 5.3 CD in the drive, complete with caddy! It?s days like today with a sparkling clean functional SGI Crimson VGX in your kitchen that the hobby makes perfect sense (except to one?s better half! ;-) -Austin.