[rescue] Octane woes

[David Holland]

Connect to the console serial port.. 9600 N 8 1.

What do you get?

David


Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:

> Ok... so I got this nifty Octane.... other than needing an OS loaded it
> seemed fine.
> 
> So, finding information that indicates there are different power supply
> revs, motherboard revs, etc and wanting to find out exactly what I have,
> I pulled the power supply, XIO board slots, and cpu board.... wrote down
> all the information... put it all back together... and
> 
> viola... all I have now is one fancy hunk of dung.... does nothing.
> 
> I've tried reseating everything but the power supply... three times...
> 
> no light on the front, no audio startup sound, no video, no beeps,
> no nothing... (well, the power supply fan comes on, and the system 
> cooling fans run).... other than that ..... dead...
> 
> too bad.. it has like 384M RAM, R10000 225MHz, ESI graphics....
> 
> Other than the case being scuffed up in places, it is in decent physical
> shape as well....
> 
> One thing I did do... is on the XIO (I think that is what it is) where
> the graphics card is... I touched the funky connector... the one your
> not supposed to touch.... doubt that could cause this... pulling the
> XIO boards and powering up... the light never comes on the front... so
> it acts more like the cpu board is either not getting power, or has gone
> dead....
> 
> Are those funky connectors touchy....  they don't give me the warn and fuzzy
> fealings of something reliable and trustworthy.... but I have no experience
> and am going by physical impressions... not electrical characteristics....
> 
> I hope this thing isn't dead now... <sigh>...
> 
> -- Curt
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