[rescue] The Practical Guide to FDDI

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

Could the actual circuit breaker in the power supply be faulty ?  Do you
have a way of checking/watching the current draw on the box to see if it
goes up, up, up until the breaker pops....  if the current doesn't go up
then it might just be the breaker itself.  If your handy with electronics
you could always replace it or replace it with a fuseholder and fuse.

-- Curt

>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 19:27:09 -0500
>From: Andrew Weiss <ajwdsp at cloud9.net>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] The Practical Guide to FDDI
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
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>Hey well... I just lost my only other FDDI capable machine... and the 
>machine that I was planning to begin the FDDI segment with... RIP 
>Crimson....
>
>I was working on my HP D250 and had just gotten things going nicely... 
>installed the ANSI-C compiler, built bash... was working on building 
>openssl and was playing around with XonX by running an XDMCP broadcast 
>query... when POP! (well more of a click like a large monitor changing 
>resolutions) and the sounds in the next room were vastly different.  
>Turns out the Crimson's reset/circuit breaker switch had popped out... 
>ok so I turned the back switch off and the front one... pressed in the 
>reset, and powered everything on... machine runs for about 5 seconds 
>and then the switch pops back out.  Tried pulling everything from the 
>chassis ... same problem...so  I think the P/S is dead somehow... fans 
>still run.
>
>So now I have two dead Power series SGI boxen... a dead Power Series 
>VGX R4400-150 which is in a Crimson chassis with the covers 
>switched...i.e. it used to be the Crimson... and a dead Crimson VGXT 
>r44K150.... GAH... and I loved this big red brick...
>
>So far googling has turned up nothing that helps...
>
>Andrew
>
>On Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 04:37  PM, Michael Schiller wrote:
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>> Well, I guess I loose geek points as just yesterday I switched back
>> from FDDI to fast ethernet! The reason? Simple, noise. At this point I
>> only had 2 machines connected via FDDI (a U1 & U30) and the lanplex
>> 2500 I was using to connect them to the rest of my network (a Mac, pc,
>> and wireless AP) was just way too loud! I replaced the 2500 with a
>> cheap linksys 8 port consumer grade switch and my house has gotten
>> ...
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