Base systems and peripherals for Iris computers

Is it possible to convert a challenge XL to an onyx with  the addition
of a VCAM board and RM board?
Is it worth it?
How would it compare to an onyx 2?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

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Hi,

I have an indigo 2 high impact

the problem is that somehow the machine crashed and I had to press the
power off button on the machine.

After that the machine does not turn on….I had this problem sometime
ago but the machine turned on after sometime…

Can anyone tell me what the problem is

prad

I am a student of the Wroclaw University of Technology (former the Technical
University of Wroclaw).
I study Computer Science specializing in Parallel Processing. This is my
final year, so I am preparing
to write my Master Thesis.

I am interested in Distributed Shared Memory multiprocessors, especially the
SGI Origin 2000. I have
already read the general information published at the SGI Web page
(http://www.sgi.com/origin/numa_tech.html), but I need some more detailed
data. I would like to learn
how the processors access memory located at remote nodes of the hypercube,
how memory
access conflicts are handled (if they occur), what kind of data is actually
transmitted between routers,
where the frequently accessed data is cached and what is the cache coherence
protocol used.

I am going to use that information for my Master Thesis only, not for any
commercial purpose. Can
anyone help me, please?

         Marek Stocki
         msto…@acm.org

Hi,

I have an Octane which won’t boot up, and was wondering if anyone had
any ideas.  Here’s the situation.
The user shutdown the machine and cycled the power.  When he powered up
the machine, it did not boot.  The lights are on, so the power supply is
not dead, but the monitor does not appear to receive any signals, the
hard drive does not spin up, etc.  In fact, the only way to remove power
to the machine is to remove the power cable; the power switch doesn’t
seem to do anything.  Unfortunately, this is the first SGI machine with
which I’ve worked, so I have no intuitive idea of what is wrong.

Does anyone have any thoughts as to what the problem might be?  Does
anyone have any suggestions of things to try?

Thanks for the help,

Jeff

Hi, I have two SGI 320′s each running with one
Pentium II – 450 Mhz processor CPU.  I want to
move one chip into the other, and buy 2 Pentium
III – 550Mhz chips and put them into the other
computer.  After calling SGI, they told me that
they will sell me each Pentium III – 550 chip for
$1115, that’s almost three times as much as I can
get the chip from www.pricewatch.com, where I can
get a retail boxed cpu for $405.

     I then called SGI again, and they told me
that the reason their cpus are more expensive is
that they come with special heat-sinks, but they
told me that the processor itself it the same
exact thing as the one that I could buy from
INTEL.  Has anybody upgraded an SGI on their own?
Because I don’t want to burn out the processors
that I will buy from pricewatch.  Also, I have
already taken into account the fact that I need
to have the same stepping values on both chips.

The only reason that I could think of is maybe
SGI overclocks the chips somehow because the
video bus is ~1 gigahertz, so it will be more
demanding of the cpu.  So it must need a better
heatsink, but what? a heatsink made out of iron?

If anybody has the same problem, please contact
me by email and by posting to this newsgroup, so
that other people in the future can be helped as
well. Thanks – John

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Before you buy.

I need to extend the RGB, mouse, and keyboard cables from an
Infinite Reality (in an air conditioned room) to another location about
30-40 meters away. I am looking for any source of equipment that will
allow this (inline video amps, etc) and any personal experiences in
doing anything similar.

Thanks!

Jimmy Liberato
liber…@cs.nps.navy.mil
Modeling, Virtual Environment,
and Simulations Lab
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California

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Before you buy.

What low-end sgi system should I be looking for if I am primarily interested
in S-VHS video editing and simple 3D animation (LifeForms)?

John Taylor

I currently running IRIX 6.3 on O2. I tried to set up the Fujitsu
Optical disk drive on it. However, after I attach the drive on it, the
desktop didn’t display the drive icon. So I am not able to use it. I
have used the confidence test to check it. I saw the drive on the test,
but the test is fail.  I also used the hinv the check the hardware. I
saw it on list., but I just could find the its Icon. Can anybody help?
Thank You very much!

Hi!

Does anyone has aclue where I can get an adapter to hook a PC-VGA monitor to
an Indigo for small money?

Mike

Please ignore my previous message with the incorrect return address.

The nvram in my o2 has lost its hardware ethernet address.  It thinks
it’s ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.  Does anybody know of a way to reset it to its
proper value without paying SGI big bucks to do it?  Otherwise, the
nvram is fine.  I can change other variables and the changes stick.
It’s just the ethernet address that’s screwed up.  Thanks.