Re: SGI Indigo, WTB Power supply? Burning smell?

2016-12-10 Thread ethan
I started up my indigo today, it has the same time of day error. The chime does play before the message is displayed. --Devin Thanks for the info! So good chance the capacitor that is fried in mine might be related to the audio section. Going to pick up a caliper so I can measure the

Re: SGI Indigo, WTB Power supply? Burning smell?

2016-12-10 Thread Devin
I started up my indigo today, it has the same time of day error. The chime does play before the message is displayed. --Devin On 12/10/2016 11:55 AM, et...@757.org wrote: After sniffing the PCBs for a minute or so like bomb dog looking for a burned resistor or cap I got to thinking that

Re: SGI Indigo, WTB Power supply? Burning smell?

2016-12-10 Thread ethan
After sniffing the PCBs for a minute or so like bomb dog looking for a burned resistor or cap I got to thinking that the PCBs are bigger than I remembered. Better than I remembered. Found the fried component! A surface mount yellow rectangular capacitor mounted on the bottom of the CPU

Re: SGI Indigo, WTB Power supply? Burning smell?

2016-12-09 Thread ethan
I have a indigo that is not getting much use. I believe it has the R4000 with the better power supply, and maxed out ram.(whatever that may be, i want to say 192 Mb, but i coud be mistaken, i can fire it up and verify if needed) I have not used it much. Prom battery is dead, i used to jump it

Re: SGI Indigo, WTB Power supply? Burning smell?

2016-12-09 Thread william degnan
On Dec 9, 2016 11:09 PM, "devin davison" wrote: > > I have a indigo that is not getting much use. I believe it has the R4000 > with the better power supply, and maxed out ram.(whatever that may be, i > want to say 192 Mb, but i coud be mistaken, i can fire it up and verify if

Re: SGI Indigo, WTB Power supply? Burning smell?

2016-12-09 Thread devin davison
I have a indigo that is not getting much use. I believe it has the R4000 with the better power supply, and maxed out ram.(whatever that may be, i want to say 192 Mb, but i coud be mistaken, i can fire it up and verify if needed) I have not used it much. Prom battery is dead, i used to jump it with

SGI Indigo, WTB Power supply? Burning smell?

2016-12-09 Thread ethan
Okay, after a ton of rounding up the parts I finally have the keyboard, keyboard cable, mouse, Indigo and 13W3 to VGA cable to try to bring my Indigo back up. I put my baby on the desk, cable it all up... and burning smell when I start it up. So far I can't find anything on the PCBs that