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curtjr4
From Michigan, United States
Who joined June 23, 2010, 8:58 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of SGI o2 with a RED LED? at June 23, 2010, 9:07 p.m...

Hello there!
I am a bit new to SGI and MIPS based machines, so I have no clue what to do. I bought an SGI o2 off of eBay, which was told to be pulled from an active environment. I, however, did not have such good luck trying to get it to work. Whenever I plug it in, it turns on by it's self with a solid red LED. I can't turn it off from the power button so I need to cut the power just to turn it off. I did replace the processor (Like what SGIs troubleshooting said was the problem), but it didn't help me at all. So I am stuck with 4 extra R5Ks and a dead o2. Does anybody have a possible solution? (Note, I am a complete noob to SGIs...).

I however did contact SGI. They contacted me giving me troubleshooting steps for a SGI Octane (No help? lol). Does anybody know anything I can do? Since I am eager to get it running!

Here's my system specs (To my knowledge)...
-R5000 MIPS Processor (Mint condition)
-Audio/Visual module (Tried removing it. Didn't help)
-Dead CD-ROM drive.
-IBM Hard Drive (I believe it has Irix 5.3 on it)
-Sony APS-90 Power Supply

Thank you!
-Curt

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curtjr4
From Michigan, United States
Who joined June 23, 2010, 8:58 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of SGI o2 with a RED LED? at June 24, 2010, 1:45 p.m...

When I got it in the mail it had the red led... so it's not like I did it. I tried the options that you guys gave me, so no luck. I need a new R5000 logic board

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curtjr4
From Michigan, United States
Who joined June 23, 2010, 8:58 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of SGI o2 with a RED LED? at June 24, 2010, 10:57 p.m...

Yeah, everything has been reseated. I did not clean the RAM and such with alcohol since I am not comfortable by doing that (My track record shows that I have a tendency to screw up and get water/alcohol on something that I shouldn't have lol). I will just need to buy a new logic board if that's the case. It would be nice to get the part to go on the back of the power supply, new CDROM drive, CDROM drive cover, and a new black think for the top of it... but I am not made of money haha.

I probably should put this part in a different topic, but I also have an Indy R5000. It boots up to diagnostics and keeps saying that there is no bootfile (I am assuming theres no OS). The hard drive is 1.9GB I believe... but I have no way of installing an operating system. No CD drives for it, floppy drives, and no other SGI system to remotely install from (Well, theres the o2 but thats dead). Any ideas with the Indy>

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curtjr4
From Michigan, United States
Who joined June 23, 2010, 8:58 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of SGI o2 with a RED LED? at June 26, 2010, 9:54 p.m...

ajerimez wrote:

curtjr4 wrote: No CD drives for it, floppy drives, and no other SGI system to remotely install from (Well, theres the o2 but thats dead). Any ideas with the Indy>

Remove the CD-ROM drive from your O2 and connect it to your Indy's internal SCSI connector (you'll obviously need to remove the Indy's skin to do this). I've done this on several occasions - it's relatively easy, you just have to rest the CD-ROM drive on the right front corner of the Indy's chassis. Just make sure the CD-ROM and hard drive are using different SCSI IDs.

I've tried that before with my Sun's Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM drive (As the o2's doesn't work. The rubber band thing in it snapped oddly when I got it). It returns in I/O errors. I'll boot it up tomorrow and share the error

cris_adder wrote: I had pretty much the same situation with a few O2's I just received. Had two Red light boards and in some cases no power.

I was able to fix the red lights by re-seating CPU and using a known pair of good (32Mb Kingston) RAM. I found that in most cases, there had been 1 RAM chip dead on each board and this was causing a RED light. After booting, at the PROM prompt type "off". After that everything seemed OK.

I'll try getting some new memory for it. I don't think that I have any compatible RAM sticks in my closet. So i'll try buying some, or i'll see if there's some in any machine I own that works on it.

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Wrote on the subject of SparcStation 20 wont boot? at July 8, 2010, 5:27 p.m...

Hello everyone! I have an Sun SparcStation 20 (SuperSparc-II). It decides to not boot up, what so ever. This thing has been giving me trouble for the past two years... such as throwing FIFO errors when I try to load the X window system, then it magicly made the whole drive read-only in the fstab file, then it's doing this. It says...

Code:

  ok
  
  ok boot
  
  Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@f, 400000/esp@f, 800000/sd@3,0  File and args:
  
  Level 15 Interrupt

this is getting really annoying... if you get my drift. I supplied some pictures... like the error I am getting and showing that the workstation is on (and in wonderful condition

)

-Curt

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Wrote on the subject of SparcStation 20 wont boot? at July 8, 2010, 7:24 p.m...

Heh. It worked. Now it says "Watchdog Reset", then the graphic at the top left gets all decolored.

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curtjr4
From Michigan, United States
Who joined June 23, 2010, 8:58 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of SGI o2 with a RED LED? at July 14, 2010, 5:33 p.m...

I am likely getting a new system module within two weeks! I will let you all know what happens. I have a great feeling about this... but it has an R7K CPU in it, and the current one has a R5K. If this board doesn't work... could the power supply possibly be to blame? Could that cause a red LED?

And as for the CDROM drive, I think it's completely broken. I tried snaping the gear back into place, plugged it in and hoped for the best. It was stuck. The o2 cut the power after about 5 seconds. Shorted? Did it do that for safety measures? What's the deal... I am very worried if I damaged anything else on it.

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Wrote on the subject of Irix 6.5 refuses to start at June 20, 2013, 4:28 p.m...

Hi. I'm banging my head on the wall out of confusion and being agitated. I would ask on IRC, but this problem is rather "special" so I thought it'd be best on here. Some users may quickly know who I am if you're on the Nekochan IRC.

So, here's some background. I have four R5K o2's (ones broken). Last night, I was attempting to clone Irix 6.3 to a blank hard disk. This wound up working great, except for one thing: I was an idiot and accidentally overwrote numerous files in "/" (not too many, I was fairly quick to stop cpio from copying). I resumed the process where the drive was mounted, and all went well. I rebooted the o2 after this to make sure that the drive was still working. To my surprise, the drive with 6.5 still booted (somewhat like a 6.3/6.5 hybrid). The cloned drive with 6.3 also worked. Now we can remove that 6.3 clone from the equation... I have a goofed up 6.5 drive due to my stupidity (This happened at 5AM, so my fault for being extremely tired).

I then grabbed my SGI 6.5 installation CD's, and attempted to reinstall from scratch. My problem was the screen went black and the entire system went unresponsive... keyboard didn't work, mouse didn't, or the power button. I reset the unit with the pinhole, and I get dumped back to PROM. Out of frustration, I tried the installation process on a different o2, and Irix installed flawlessly (just 6.5 base). Now, I take the disk with a fresh copy of Irix 6.5 on it and put it in the o2 that was locking up and giving me a black screen. The disk refused to boot, and still gave me a black screen and went unresponsive. I'm confused since it booted fine on my other o2.

Any ideas or suggestions? This is very aggravating.

Thanks 8-)

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curtjr4
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Wrote on the subject of Irix 6.5 refuses to start at June 20, 2013, 11:35 p.m...

I have solved the problem... this thread can either be closed or locked, or whatever it's destined to.

What I did was I installed the .15 overlays on top of the base 6.5 installation, which was mentioned to me on the IRC. This solved the problem, and the system now boots flawless. Why SGI made it to where you can't boot an older install of Irix... I don't know. Seems silly to me. But it works.

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