SGI: Hardware

hi

hoping anyone could help? my fuel has stopped booting and shows me a red and white flashing light.

I have connected to the serial port and i get the following output

IP35 PROM SGI Version 6.210 built 02:33:51 PM Aug 26, 2004
Running in DDR mode
Testing/Initializing memory ............... DONE
Copying PROM code to memory ............... DONE
Discovering local IO ...................... WARNING: xbow_base: 0x92
00000000000000 link: 13 Widget present, but link not alive!
WARNING: xbow_base: 0x9200000000000000 link: 13 Widget present, but link not ali
ve!
DONE
Discovering NUMAlink connectivity .........
Local hub NUMAlink is down.
*** Local network link down
DONE
Found 1 objects (1 hubs, 0 routers) in 30362 usec
Waiting for peers to complete discovery.... DONE
No other nodes present; becoming global master
Global master is /hw/rack/001/bay/01
Intializing any CPUless nodes.............. DONE
Checking partitioning information ......... DONE
No other nodes present; becoming partition master
Loading BASEIO prom ....................... DONE

BASEIO PROM Monitor SGI Version 6.210 built 02:30:38 PM Aug 26, 2004 (BE64)
1 CPUs on 1 nodes found.
Automatic update of PROM environment disabled

PS/2 Keyboard & Mouse diagnostics
Found mouse on port 0
Found keyboard on port 1
LEDs test: keyboard doesn't answer
pckm failed:
RSLT pckm FAIL diag_rc = 73

Failed pckm diagnostics

Graphics diagnostics

Installing PROM Device drivers ............
Base I/O Ethernet set to /dev/ethernet/ef0
Installing Graphics Console...
graphics install: searching for pipe 0
klgraphics: System has no GFX

Walking SCSI Adapter 0, (pci id 1)
1+ Device Vendor Product: SGI ST373405LW
2- 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- 8- 9- 10- 11- 12- 13- 14- 15- = 1 device(s)


Walking SCSI Adapter 1, (pci id 1)
1- 2- 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- 8- 9- 10- 11- 12- 13- 14- 15- = 0 device(s)

Initializing PROM Device drivers .......... DONE
Cannot open /dev/graphics/textport for output
Cannot open /dev/graphics/textport for output
Checking hardware inventory ............... ***Warning: Found a new
New Type board in module 001c01, serial
Please use the 'update' command from the PROM Monitor to update the inventory
DONE

**** System Configuration and Diagnostics Summary ****
CONFIG:
No. of NODEs enabled = 1
No. of NODEs disabled = 0
No. of CPUs enabled = 1
No. of CPUs disabled = 0
Mem enabled = 2048 MB
Mem disabled = 0 MB
No. of RTRs enabled = 0
No. of RTRs disabled = 0

DIAG RESULTS:
/hw/module/001c01/brick/xtalk/13: IO link bad
**** End System Configuration and Diagnostics Summary ****


System Maintenance Menu

1) Start System
2) Install System Software
3) Run Diagnostics
4) Recover System
5) Enter Command Monitor

I can boot the system using option 1, thats all i've done.

Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated.

Regards

Same Fuel error message discussed in this topic:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16723070

If you check the other post and decide you need a new CPU, I think I have both 500mhz and 600Mhz spares and am in the UK. Note, that if you were running something faster such as 700 or 800Mhz, it is not wise to downgrade to a lower CPU in these systems without configuring the machine for a change so I would recommend you only replace your existing CPU with something of the same speed or faster.

If you need any other assistance, just ask.

That's something I've been curious about: what do you tell the L1 to downgrade the CPU speed? I upgraded to a 700MHz in my Fuel recently (from a 600MHz), and it's very nice, but it would be good to have a fallback strategy for the remote possibility that the PIMM fails someday.

You don't tell the L1 anything, you have to program the PROM prior to powering the system down. Easiest method is using the flash -f option within IRIX or it can be done within POD mode, but that's more risky for the inexperienced user. Have a look at the man page for flash and it should help you.

No, I know how to flash the PROM (I couldn't have upgraded if I didn't ). What do you do if the PIMM dies? You can't boot IRIX then, and I can't put the 600MHz unit back in. So is there a way to fix this from the L1?