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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: R4000 Indigo power-up problem
- Message-ID: <sljfnp4@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 00:33:50 GMT
- References: <1992Nov21.192405.29137@cs.wayne.edu>
- Sender: news@zuni.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1992Nov21.192405.29137@cs.wayne.edu> atems@plasma.physics.wayne.edu (Dale Atems) writes:
- | Our new R4000 Indigo occasionally fails to power up properly: the LED
- | on the front of the CPU box turns green immediately, flashes briefly
- | orange then turns solid orange. The chord ("tune") is never played and
- | the monitor screen remains blank. I plan to ask the TAC about this,
- | but I was wondering whether anyone here had any ideas about what could
- | be wrong. I've checked the obvious things already: cables,
- | connections, seating of SIMMs.
-
- The most common cause of this is an upgrade where the power
- supply wasn't replaced. The r3k indigo doesn't have enough
- power to run an r4k system. The more loaded your system is,
- the more likely this is to happen.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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