[geeks] Death of a Crimson... AGGH... not from eth cables

[Donald McClure]

On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 01:09  PM, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> I was getting ready to power up my Crimson today... need some house 
> heat and wanted to try out the new AUI cable substitutes.... after 
> sacrificing the 7006 to the gods as a test unit and verifying that the 
> cables work OK and the concentrator works ok, I hooked up the crimson 
> cable and powered the unit on... Nothing... no response...zip.  Last 
> time I powered the unit on was a month or two ago... ran fine... shut 
> it down... hasn't been powered on since.  Is there something I'm 
> missing... I've tried both reset switches... the back switch and the 
> front switch... the socket is live...
>
> I'm trying to avoid moving all the boards to the Power Series Box 
> instead, but I may have to.
>
> Any thoughts?
>

This happened to my Crimson VGXT once. I pulled all of the boards and 
reseated them. Then it  worked fine.

Maybe it was just a cwinkydink-- the SGI gods were smiling that day...

Don McClure							Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Bel Air, MD
donindigo2 at mac.com