Welp, I've acquired an R3000 Indigo w/ XS LG1 graphics! It's a very pretty machine, here's a picture:
However, I've had basically no luck in getting any meaningful output from the thing.
I've tried multiple SoG capable monitors to no avail through the XS' VGA output and the 13w3 output with a couple of different adapters.
Over serial, luck isn't much better. I managed to find my Apple serial/printer cable and sanity checked it by using ZTerm on a Quadra 610 talking to an Indy and it works perfectly. However, no dice when it comes to the Indigo:
(That square character sometimes shows when I switch the Indigo on, otherwise the cursor blinks a couple times rapidly, so something is happening! )
I'm using 96008N1 which I believe should be correct for the Indigo.
For reference, the green light on the CPU board lights up just fine and the hard disk I inserted spins up as well.
I've taken the CPU board and the graphics board out and given the connectors on all of them a good clean. The boards all look pristine and the machine seems to be in pretty nice condition besides the whole "not working" thing.
EDIT: I've just replaced the clock battery, but haven't noticed any difference besides a different character sometimes showing up when I flip the power switch over serial: I almost wonder if `dbaud` has been changed or something, but I've tried multiple different baud rates to no avail.
EDIT 2: Also, I realized that in the owner's guide it mentions that the LED should be amber upon turning the machine on while it does power-on tests, but my Indigo doesn't do this. The LED is simply always green.
EDIT 3: I uploaded a video of the 4.0.5F tour. Somewhat amusing.
However, I've had basically no luck in getting any meaningful output from the thing.
I've tried multiple SoG capable monitors to no avail through the XS' VGA output and the 13w3 output with a couple of different adapters.
Over serial, luck isn't much better. I managed to find my Apple serial/printer cable and sanity checked it by using ZTerm on a Quadra 610 talking to an Indy and it works perfectly. However, no dice when it comes to the Indigo:
(That square character sometimes shows when I switch the Indigo on, otherwise the cursor blinks a couple times rapidly, so something is happening! )
I'm using 96008N1 which I believe should be correct for the Indigo.
For reference, the green light on the CPU board lights up just fine and the hard disk I inserted spins up as well.
I've taken the CPU board and the graphics board out and given the connectors on all of them a good clean. The boards all look pristine and the machine seems to be in pretty nice condition besides the whole "not working" thing.
EDIT: I've just replaced the clock battery, but haven't noticed any difference besides a different character sometimes showing up when I flip the power switch over serial: I almost wonder if `dbaud` has been changed or something, but I've tried multiple different baud rates to no avail.
EDIT 2: Also, I realized that in the owner's guide it mentions that the LED should be amber upon turning the machine on while it does power-on tests, but my Indigo doesn't do this. The LED is simply always green.
EDIT 3: I uploaded a video of the 4.0.5F tour. Somewhat amusing.
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