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Once upon a time I was real into the SGI scene. Hung around Nekochan all the time, but have been distant for the last 5+ years. Getting back into it with today's discovery.

I was over helping my grandfather with some stuff today and ended up looking for some stuff in his basement. Low and behold under a pile of garbage, I unearthed my Octane.

I haven't touched this thing since probably 2013. Quite frankly, I thought I had thrown it away. But here we are.

I struggled greatly with it back then, but I don't really remember what was going on. I never could get it to boot up. It's very well configured - SSE and SE graphics, dual R12ks, a bunch of RAM, etc. I also have a second Lucent PSU and a single CPU card (not sure what, I think an R10k).

I can't find my 13w3 -> VGA right now, but I did just plug the unit in and observe. Nothing. Tried both PSUs. Anyone have some advice as where I should start to troubleshoot? I used to know a bunch about this stuff and am slowly re-assimilating things but I'm admittedly lost.

Thanks. Happy to keep everyone posted on progress.