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So, I've inherited an Octane around ~25 SCSI drives of data that I need to consolidate on elsewhere prior to wiping all drives and finding the green beast a new home. I have fond memories of SGI hardware as an engineering student and an Octane was always a sort of a dream machine.

Managed to tar and ftp the root disk somewhere else, then wiped it, and went through a hell of a time getting fresh IRIX installed but we now have 6.5.22 running.

So the troubles - last night the mouse stopped working, and today on boot I get a post error for the keyboard. All were working fine 24 hours ago. I don't think it's the devices themselves. When the mouse stopped functioning putting it in the keyboard port wouldn't get it going again (I wasn't too concerned as I was telnet'ing into it). Now I can't even get into it.

The machine is older I think - 2x R10k 225MHz, 2x ESI, RAD audio, 256MB RAM, PCI shoehorn with XTALKPCI card installed. There are some manually patched traces on the main board. 

On boot the PCI board doesn't seem to do much before the OS comes up so the PS/2 ports on it are unfortuantely not useful to get this baby beyond POST.

Any help appreciated. Keen to see it come alive again. If there's any way of subverting POST it'd be super ideal.