My great horrid Ebay Octane buy :) I think most on this mail list have read my tale but here's a recap. Won an Octane on ebay for $53.00 and $70.+ in shipping. UPS tried to destroy it and almost did. some damage to the system but I dug up an old Hitachi SuperSync Monitor how's that for proof to the wife that all is not junk LOL. anyways the system boots I have an external Lacie CDR/W attached and an unregistered complete copy of IRIX 6.5.4 but I can not install from the cdrom?? I get an error code but If I just allow the system to boot with it attached to my lan it succeeds in going to the log on page Yea..... now the sad part I can't log on because I have no user account. is there a default log on name or password? I've tried all sorts of combos like admin/root or root/admin etc...and nothing works I thought I read somewhere that there is a failsafe log on but I can't seem to find it.
Can anyone help me and before we go there ya, when it comes to SGI's and Unix I'm a total newbie or worse.
Regards Richard Morton
David Cummings wrote:
Richard, First question for you: is the BenQ capable of sync-on-green? AFAIK, SOG is required by the graphics boards SGI used. (pause here, 'cuz I may be wrong). As for the BIOS, the SGI has a PROM(basically the same thing) which can be accessed at boot by pressing ESC. Check it out: http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=bks&srch=&fname=/SGI_Admin/IA_ConfigOps/sgi_html/ch09.html
You might want to try hooking up a serial console to make sure something's coming up at all. your graphics card may be fried(considering the abuse it seems to have taken).
Good luck!!!! -Dave
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