What do you do with an SGI Indigo2?

drjayphd · Post by **drjayphd** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:09 am

Snagged one of these puppies from Goodwill for $40. Indigo2, 195MHz R10000. (Further specs here. Unfortunately, there's a couple of problems:

* Video. That, uh, doesn't look anything like a VGA connector on the back...

* Everything else: It doesn't power on. There's two SCSI drives in there, but I don't know what would cause it to not boot. Loose SCSI cord? Dead something?

Anyway, I thought I could use it as a MythTV backend box or file server, but... no clue. I don't even think it can take PCI cards...

Post by **bicostp** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:08 am

Does it have this card?

<img src="http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/2734/00back2mv8.jpg">

I think that's this connector:
http://pinouts.ru/Video/ibmppcvideo_pinout.shtml

As for not powering on, maybe the power supply's shot?

If you can get it to boot, it might make a good file server if you can find more SCSI hard drives. (Or if it can handle IDE drives.)

drjayphd · Post by **drjayphd** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:05 pm

bicostp wrote:Does it have this card?

<img src="http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/2734/00back2mv8.jpg">

I think that's this connector:
http://pinouts.ru/Video/ibmppcvideo_pinout.shtml

As for not powering on, maybe the power supply's shot?

If you can get it to boot, it might make a good file server if you can find more SCSI hard drives. (Or if it can handle IDE drives.)

Nope, it's got the 13W3 connector (the one on the left in that pic) in one slot, a blank space, and what looks like a serial port the next slot down. Which, if I understand it, means it's got the newest video card this could handle.