Projects

Silicon Graphics (SGI) Indy - June 13, 2025

To say the SGI Indy has been a terrible experience for me so far is an understatement... I got my first one for free (thankfully!) to save it from being thrown out, and it has got one of the notoriously bad Nidec power supplies. In the meantime, I have purchased two more Indys (why do I buy more of these??) with the intent of fixing all three, and selling the extras. Between the three, I still don't have a working system. I've got two bad power supplies, at least one dead system board, and possibly other issues I haven't figured out yet. The one machine with a good PSU starts up and pretends it wants to work, until you try to install IRIX and the system locks up (exactly what you want). The Indys are an ongoing project, but a fairly high priority one as I would like to decrease the number of duplicate machines around here. I will update this post as progress is made, for now, they can rest in pieces in my closet. Updated 11/06/2025