Recent content by CrimsonRE

Hmmm, I failed to ask if the fan spins when you power the machine up? If not, then it will definitely overheat (for my most elderly PowerSeries beast, a 4D/120, the fans no longer work so I keep the back panel down and a fan pointed inside - it has a temperature sensor). Does the display go...

Octane would be nice, for sure. I've tried - have 2 non-functioning ones, perhaps damaged during shipment, they are quite heavy, need to be packed very carefully. And those wierd weird connectors for the motherboard don't help things at all... I hope you have some good luck finding one! I'm...

So did you have any time/luck getting one of these running? I did the exact same thing last winter (Jan-Feb 2022). I had one R4k upgraded all the way to 150MHz R44k with Elan graphics that had PS issues some years back. At that time I found 2 more Indigos, got'em shipped to me - and then dropped...

Almost certainly a power supply issue - unless the Indigo was kept in a nice cool place and regularly exercised, the capacitors in the PS are likely failing. There may be details of replacing these in the www.irixnet.org forums. That site and sgi.sh are the two main SGI online groups, lots of...

Thank you for the diagram! Quite nice that someone has made an SGI-to-USB converter. I have a couple of the original SGI keyboards for use with my R3k & R4k Indigos and my various PowerSeries beasts. I also was lucky enough to get the 2nd prototype of Randy's SGI-to-PS/2 converters back in the...