SGI: Hardware

So silly me saw an auction for a cheap V12 and bought it, not thinking that my old octane only has Xbow 1.3. As far as I can tell, it is probably the issue, even if I also have the older PSU.

I'm seeing the following things:

Diagnostics from the console screen starts, but after "press ESC to quit" the screen turns black and nothing
happens (I suppose it might be running and I'm just too impatient to wait)
'single' from the console loads the kernel but does nothing else
booting the system (with Odyssey graphics drivers, used a V6 before) seems to work properly, until the login screen, I get a dark screen with random pixels, X pointer, hourglass ponter and then the signal is lost.

Is this a case of too old Xbow? Or something else?










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This SGI document gives the official version of what's required: http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi ... /pr01.html

I see, I did read some other posts here about people using less than the required parts, but perhaps that wasn't for these most powerful ones. (V6 on 1.2 IIRC)

Yes, v6/v8 will work with any xbow. For v10/v12 you need xbow 1.4.

I understand. Fortunately they seem to be easy to get