Nekonomicon - Octane V8 R14K 550MHz 2GB

vegac
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Wrote the following at Jan. 31, 2010, 9:20 a.m...

Finally all is setup and well...
It took a while (and a bit of help from people on this board) so thanks all!

First the hinv...

Code:

-bash-4.0$ hinv -vm

Location: /hw/node

PM10600MHZ Board: barcode MDR232     part 030-1700-002 rev  A

Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15

IP30 Board: barcode JNX289     part 030-1467-001 rev  C

Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15/pci/2

FP1 Board: barcode JLP202     part 030-0891-003 rev  E

PWR.SPPLY.ER Board: barcode AAE9250391 part 060-0035-002 rev  A

Location: /hw/node/xtalk/11

ODY128 Board: barcode BVA805     part 030-1404-003 rev  A

1 550 MHZ IP30 Processor

Heart ASIC: Revision F

CPU: MIPS R14000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.3

FPU: MIPS R14010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0

Main memory size: 2048 Mbytes

Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.3

Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes

Data cache size: 32 Kbytes

Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes

Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended

Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)

Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 2)

Disk drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 3)

Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended

CDROM: unit 6 on SCSI controller 1

IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1

IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2

IOC3 parallel port: plp1

Graphics board: V8

Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2

Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1

PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 2

PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 0

PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 1

PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0005) PCI slot 3

And the gfxinfo...

Code:

-bash-4.0$ /usr/gfx/gfxinfo

Graphics board 0 is "ODYSSEY" graphics.

Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024

BUZZ version A.1

PB&J version 1

128MB memory

Banks: 4, CAS latency: 3

Monitor 0 type: Unknown

Channel 0:

Origin = (0,0)

Video Output: 1280 pixels, 1024 lines, 59.00Hz (1280x1024_59)

(And yes I'm running a V8 at 1280x1024_59...stock resolution apparently now that gets around the brokenness of the V6/V8's pixel clock).

Sadly it has a graphics mode for 1920x1080_72 and 1920x1080_30i but no 1920x1080_60 (which would be perfect since I'm on a 1920x1080 native panel).
Working on getting native resolution but having difficulty remembering what CD you install VFC from (apparently it's not installed by default...)

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Wrote the following at Jan. 31, 2010, 10:48 a.m...

Congratulations on your success.

vegac wrote:

what CD you install VFC from (apparently it's not installed by default...)

VFC is located on Foundation 2. That version of VFC was compatible with IRIX 6.5. 0 , so you'll have to update the program to match your current IRIX revision. The updates to VFC are located on Overlay Disk 2 <or are with 6.5.30>.

BTW- If you'd like a convenient list of whats on each of the IRIX install disks, load file:///var/www/htdocs/WhatsNew/install/cds_frame.html into your browser <while running IRIX 6.5.x, of course>.

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foetz
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Wrote the following at Jan. 31, 2010, 12:01 p.m...

very nice, the 550 has always been quite rare

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vegac
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Wrote the following at Jan. 31, 2010, 12:27 p.m...

Thanks!
Only a few bits of struggle to go...
1) Getting setmon/xsetmon to take some custom resolutions (it's fighting with me...posted about it in Irix Software forum)
2) Getting a PCI Card Cage (a few people here have messaged me about this already just waiting until I have the cash to pick one up).

Then I'll be throwing my Firewire card in there so I can continue to not use it (but it'll look even more impressive in the hinv)

jan-jaap
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Wrote the following at Feb. 1, 2010, 1:57 a.m...

The processor part# is 'PM10600MHZ'

Does that make the 550MHz module an underclocked 600MHz? An attempt to improve yields by underclocking CPUs that fail at their nominal speed?

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mapesdhs
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Wrote the following at March 29, 2010, 4:56 p.m...

Very possibly, jan-jaap.

Btw, be careful if you see an advert for a single-600 and the hinv output is only from the PROM. If the CPU
is a 550, the PROM will often say it's a 600. This happened to me once, bought an Octane2 from the US
purely because the CPU was supposed to be a 600, but it wasn't. Still used it as my main desktop CPU for
a coupla years, before switching to my current Fuel/900.

Ian.

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vegac
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Wrote the following at March 30, 2010, 6:33 p.m...

mapesdhs wrote:

Very possibly, jan-jaap.

Btw, be careful if you see an advert for a single-600 and the hinv output is only from the PROM. If the CPU
is a 550, the PROM will often say it's a 600. This happened to me once, bought an Octane2 from the US
purely because the CPU was supposed to be a 600, but it wasn't. Still used it as my main desktop CPU for
a coupla years, before switching to my current Fuel/900.

Ian.

Actually, before updating to whatever newer version of Irix I installed, it was being reported as a 600. Only after I got 6.5.23 on here did it start reporting as a 550.

mapesdhs
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Wrote the following at March 30, 2010, 7:19 p.m...

vegac wrote:

Actually, before updating to whatever newer version of Irix I installed, it was being reported as a 600.
Only after I got 6.5.23 on here did it start reporting as a 550.

The way to be certain of course is the PN on the CPU module, which for a 550 is 030-1700-00x (mine had this).

Ian.

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Octane V8 R14K 550MHz 2GB