It seems my Octane (dual 300MHz V6) has developed a serious fault while sitting for a few years. It booted up fine and I was able to run a few programs before it froze up and the light bar turned red.
I hooked up a serial cable and was getting errors about bad or missing DIMMS. I tried re-seating them but things started to go down hill quickly. After a few tries it said "No usable memory found". Once I managed to start the diags but it froze and never finished. I have four DIMMS and was trying various combinations but now its totally unresponsive.
Looking at the XBOW lights only Heart and QB are lit. Pushing the power button makes BaseIO flash once. I don't have any other parts to swap out except for an IMPACT card. Using that card results in only BaseIO and Heart being lit, but still nothing on the console. I've inspected the compression connectors under a magnifying glass but they appear fine. Does this sound like a bad CPU board or bad connectors?
I hooked up a serial cable and was getting errors about bad or missing DIMMS. I tried re-seating them but things started to go down hill quickly. After a few tries it said "No usable memory found". Once I managed to start the diags but it froze and never finished. I have four DIMMS and was trying various combinations but now its totally unresponsive.
Looking at the XBOW lights only Heart and QB are lit. Pushing the power button makes BaseIO flash once. I don't have any other parts to swap out except for an IMPACT card. Using that card results in only BaseIO and Heart being lit, but still nothing on the console. I've inspected the compression connectors under a magnifying glass but they appear fine. Does this sound like a bad CPU board or bad connectors?