So I have these two little beauties that I am hoping to work on over the winter. I will put updates in this thread as things progress. I haven't tried booting them yet, but was told they do not boot. Plan to try swapping power supplies, swapping boards, re-seating boards, replacing the battery for the timekeeper chip, etc..

Now that is some purpley goodness. Looking forward to your updates!

I'm looking forward to the updates as well, some years back I had a couple SGI machines I really regret selling, it's nice to see someone bringing them back to life.

So did you have any time/luck getting one of these running? I did the exact same thing last winter (Jan-Feb 2022). I had one R4k upgraded all the way to 150MHz R44k with Elan graphics that had PS issues some years back. At that time I found 2 more Indigos, got'em shipped to me - and then dropped the whole project under a table for years (changed jobs, kiddo came along, the usual). I found the time/motivation and got new batteries installed, PS's tested/swapped around, disks/IRIX installed, and now have 2 nice R44k Indigos running (Elan & XZ-24S gfx). One other is in the pipeline....

>> CrimsonRE said:

So did you have any time/luck getting one of these running? I did the exact same thing last winter (Jan-Feb 2022). I had one R4k upgraded all the way to 150MHz R44k with Elan graphics that had PS issues some years back. At that time I found 2 more Indigos, got'em shipped to me - and then dropped the whole project under a table for years (changed jobs, kiddo came along, the usual). I found the time/motivation and got new batteries installed, PS's tested/swapped around, disks/IRIX installed, and now have 2 nice R44k Indigos running (Elan & XZ-24S gfx). One other is in the pipeline.... Click to expand...

I inherited these from @Woodengamer but have yet to dig in. I'm hoping one of these might be a suitable organ donor for a R4K Indigo I have with a flakey power supply.

Would gladly trade them all for a working Octane; I decided that's the one SGI machine I really want. Maybe someday :)

Octane would be nice, for sure. I've tried - have 2 non-functioning ones, perhaps damaged during shipment, they are quite heavy, need to be packed very carefully. And those wierd weird connectors for the motherboard don't help things at all... I hope you have some good luck finding one! I'm going to have to be content with the Indigos, Personal Irises, Indigo^2's, an O2, and several PowerSeries beasts...