[rescue] Challenge L -12V overvoltage?

[Francois Dion]

Sheldon T. Hall wrote:

>Francois Dion writes ...
>
>>opefully it doesn't go that far. I'll try a few more things tonight
>>when I get back home. Thanks for the pointers anyway. Do you have SGI
>>doc 007-1732-060? It lists all the error codes and what to do. But it's
>>not very verbose...
>>    
>>
>
>Yep.  007-1732-060 is the "Owner's Guide" which I got off SGI's website.
>
>The stuff at
>http://futuretech.mirror.vuurwerk.net/chalonyxdiag/diagprocs.html has a bit
>more substance to it.
>
>Of course, both expect you to pick up the phone, not a logic probe and a
>voltmeter, if anything serious goes wrong.  I expect that between SGI's
>desire to sell support services, and their desire not to have ham-fisted
>amateurs fscking up the hardware, they really, really wanted you to call
>Field Circus when something like this happened.
>
>Of course, that was then, and this is now.  SGI probably wouldn't make a
>one-time service call, even if we wanted to spend the money, and putting a
>"home computer" Challenge on a service contract seems, well, insane.
>  
>

Well, the good news is that if you ack the error message on the display, 
power off after that and do that twice for good measure :) , it works. 
I'm guessing I didn't do something right the first time I went into the 
log (10 messages in the nvram). But the box came back up the second time.

Relieved.

Francois