Crimson Revival

[geeklucanis]

So I have had this Crimson for over a year at this point, and SuigintouLain and I finally got the machine ironed out. We originally installed IRIX 4 on it, over serial and it did ok, until I shut it down and the RTC died, necessitating a repair of the IO3B Board. So I put it under a desk powered off for months.

So VCFW is right around the corner, so the repair was done, similarly to CBHK's repair. The machine was able to boot after the repair.

https://imgur.com/XhuT4kp

After the repairs, and finagling with a newer SCA SCSI drive and getting the system to not freak out while installing IRIX, we got IRIX 5.3 installed for demoing at VCFW.

https://imgur.com/a/sIBmofr

As you can see, the system boots to desktop, and works wonderfully so far. I want to thank SuigintouLain and CBHK for all their help from the beginning of this revival. The PSU will definitely need a recap, but it hasn't given any issues yet.

 

[Elf]

Edit: With apologies, I no longer wish to have involvement with SGUG or SGI communities in general,
and have also chosen to remove all of my content. Many things have changed since I co-founded, named, and ultimately
then left SGUG. There are many good people around, to whom I apologize for frustrating by removing these things, and
also many petty people that over the years whittled down both the enjoyment as well as sense of obligation I used to
feel to anyone else regarding what was ultimately just a hobby. Unfortunately one of the latter now writes the rules
and so it is time for me to take my things and go.

This message will replace all of my previous forum posts because deleting threads that I started would have removed
other peoples' posts.