[rescue] SGI Octane problem

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 02:44:32PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> And by "firm pressure", I mean "at least twenty pounds".  I've found
> that leaning on the heatsink (not exactly doing push-ups, but holding
> myself up), with my thumbs works well.  You'll probably get 3 to 5 more
> boots out of the machine if that's the problem, but eventually the XBOW
> chip's solder pad will go cold entirely.

Yeah - found your thread after a search, and the machine came up.  Not sure
if it was reseating the RAM, or pressing the heatsink (and I also tightened
the screws on the back of the board HOLDING the heatsink) that did the trick.

smokey 1# uptime
 12:34pm  up 20 mins,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
smokey 2# hinv -mv
Location: /hw/node
            PM10 Board: barcode GBG064     part 030-0888-004 rev  G
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15
            IP30 Board: barcode GFY858     part 030-0887-003 rev  K
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15/pci/2
             FP1 Board: barcode GBV179     part 030-0891-003 rev  B
    PWR.SPPLY.SR Board: barcode AAB7160335 part 060-0028-003 rev  A
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/12
            GM20 Board: barcode DZD276     part 030-0957-003 rev  N
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/11
            GM10 Board: barcode FSK989     part 030-0938-003 rev  T
1 195 MHZ IP30 Processor
Heart ASIC: Revision D
CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.7
FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
Main memory size: 1024 Mbytes
Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.2
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
  Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
  Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 2)
  Disk drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 3)
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
  Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 1 (unit 1)
  Disk drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 1 (unit 3)
  Disk drive: unit 5 on SCSI controller 1 (unit 5)
IOC3 serial port: tty1
IOC3 serial port: tty2
IOC3 parallel port: plp1
Graphics board: MXI
Graphics board: SI
Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2
Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4265, device 3) pci slot 2
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4215, device 4128) pci slot 0
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4215, device 4128) pci slot 1
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4265, device 5) pci slot 3

Thanks for the help.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas