![]() This is the system I bought a few days ago and all seemed to go well in the beginning... I bought it cheap, it said to have a borked videocard... ![]() ...so I thought, get rid of it and just install it like I'm used to. Hook up my favourite serial terminal(the mac) and go! ![]() It seemed pretty promising, but just after this photo was taken I couldn't get anything else out of it's serial port anymore??? I still don't have a clue what happened. ![]() Anyway, after several tryouts with several serial cables, I thought I just have a go at the borked video... and indeed it *was* borked... ![]() the setup, with a 'new' disk installed and the original on top... ![]() ...and the winner of the day, my homemade 13W3<->VGA-adapter :-) ![]() Look what happened after I chose 'run diagnostics' in the main menu... it automagically 'repaired' the video! Is that great or what? :-) (also notice it's the top video-option for an Indy, the GR3-XZ :-), what a deal huh?) ![]() ...implementing the 'new' 9GB disk ![]() BTW, this is my first SGI which actually has graphics... (no joke) ![]() ...the setup for the night... ![]() Case closed! ![]() ...after the installation :-) BTW, I installed IRIX 5.3 (which came with the machine, very nice!). I also have an original copy of IRIX 6.5 but this seemed a more sane option... 100MHz still is only 100MHz ;-) ![]() ...and me holding my thumb up (just clicking camera and getting an image is somewhat surprising when you have installed cameras on PCs before :-)) ![]() ...and the Indycam! (c) 2004 mark geektechnique.org |