SGI....

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Sebastian Brückner wrote:
>>> Why not get an Onyx2?  They've come down in price a lot.  I was 
>>> thinking of picking one up myself.
>>
>> I for one don't have room for one.
> 
> I don't have room anymore either since I put a Challenge XL in the only 
> room I have for computers.
> 
> Apart from the amount of electricity it eats (I of course can't keep it 
> running full time) the power supplies keep dying. If I remember 
> correctly I already blew four or five and since I only have a few more 
> spares and not enough knowledge of electronice to fix them I am a bit 
> worried...
> 
> I know that those machines are supposed to run continuously but it can't 
> be quite normal that every other time I power it up one of the supplies 
> dies. Any hints? Is there a way to fix those things or to prevent them 
> from blowing up altogether?

Are you sure that you've wired your premises electrics correctly?  That 
could cause power supplies to keep blowing.

Do you have enough power supplies for the boards and other options you 
have installed in the system?  That could be doing it too.  Or if you 
had a boardset with an unfused short in it or something, although I 
would think there's probably fuses in the backplane or something.

Peace...  Sridhar