Hello, first time poster here. I just got a Flint 6 running on a 300 mhz octane with MXI graphics I believe. And I have a couple of questions I hope the experts here can be able to help me.
The system had been in storage for at least 5 or 6 years, in somewhat humid and dusty conditions... I have since moved it to a dryer place and sprayed it a bit with compressed air. System powers on and boots flint (up to detecting stone and fais to mount it seems, but I´ll be experimenting with another stone array shortly).
What I think might be the power supply ( low back side fan) smells like burnt plastic after a few minutes of being powered on... anyone have any advice?
I've been doing some reading and seems like the v12 card and 4 processors is the natural upgrade path... so my question is, if I manage to get my hands on a V12 card and the 747w PSU it needs, how easy is it to upgrade/install?
Will multiple processor be easy to install?
The stone array looks in reasonably good condition, but seems 2 drives are dead, I pulled them out and could not find any info on the size of the drives just that they are seagate cheetahs mounted on some kind of circuit board that slides into the array... are they hard to find, can just the drive be changed or is it the whole board-drive combo that needs to be changed?
Since the system was pretty much abandoned after the company closing up years ago I pretty much got it as a gift from the previous owner, and from what I've heard it will run SD video real time.. good enough to do small broadcast work (99% commercials here in mexico are still SD) so I'd be willing to throw a little cash into it. But are licence transfers still in the tens of thousands of dollars as they were years ago?
Here's a pic of the system powered down:
One last question.. I installed the wacom/dongle on one of the serial ports and flint didnt like it, a flame artist friend edited some sort of config file to get Flint to look for it on the other port... after that it started fine... I'm guessing I'll need to change the file again so Flint knows where to look for the VTR remote? If so anyone knows what file and what strings to change?
Thanks a lot for your time, its hard to find info on flint systems online, I'll be trying to contact autodesk to see how much it costs to have it serviced, but I'm guessing it'll be way cheaper to do it myself.
The system had been in storage for at least 5 or 6 years, in somewhat humid and dusty conditions... I have since moved it to a dryer place and sprayed it a bit with compressed air. System powers on and boots flint (up to detecting stone and fais to mount it seems, but I´ll be experimenting with another stone array shortly).
What I think might be the power supply ( low back side fan) smells like burnt plastic after a few minutes of being powered on... anyone have any advice?
I've been doing some reading and seems like the v12 card and 4 processors is the natural upgrade path... so my question is, if I manage to get my hands on a V12 card and the 747w PSU it needs, how easy is it to upgrade/install?
Will multiple processor be easy to install?
The stone array looks in reasonably good condition, but seems 2 drives are dead, I pulled them out and could not find any info on the size of the drives just that they are seagate cheetahs mounted on some kind of circuit board that slides into the array... are they hard to find, can just the drive be changed or is it the whole board-drive combo that needs to be changed?
Since the system was pretty much abandoned after the company closing up years ago I pretty much got it as a gift from the previous owner, and from what I've heard it will run SD video real time.. good enough to do small broadcast work (99% commercials here in mexico are still SD) so I'd be willing to throw a little cash into it. But are licence transfers still in the tens of thousands of dollars as they were years ago?
Here's a pic of the system powered down:
One last question.. I installed the wacom/dongle on one of the serial ports and flint didnt like it, a flame artist friend edited some sort of config file to get Flint to look for it on the other port... after that it started fine... I'm guessing I'll need to change the file again so Flint knows where to look for the VTR remote? If so anyone knows what file and what strings to change?
Thanks a lot for your time, its hard to find info on flint systems online, I'll be trying to contact autodesk to see how much it costs to have it serviced, but I'm guessing it'll be way cheaper to do it myself.
