[weblacky]

My deep hatred of Fuels makes me feel no pain at the loss.  I would buy pallets of SGI gear of all kinds over the years and the only time I got an entire pallet of gear where it all was bad were Fuels.  Out of 22 machines I was able to get 3 working enough to sell.  Of course I did get really good at swapping environment chips and I wound up with enough extra V10s to put them in O350s, so that is a plus.

Stupid power supply design, stupid scsi cable, and a front door that would actually break just sitting there. Yuk.

But like Irinikus said they could have done a much better job on the metal work. Although I am the last person to comment on cutting up an SGI.

And I assume, unfortunately, that the bad Fuel mainboards in your story have already go off to see the wizard?

As I'm now extremely close to being able to fix dead Fuel mainboards with total voltage failure profiles (failed 12v VRM section) that does other famage.  Now there aren't any comatose Fuels in hospital beds for me to cure.... :-(

I understand back in the day, but new demand is now up, and all the graveyard Fuels are gone.  We've no stock to fix and have now created a monster of a situation.   I really wish some dealer had hoarded dead Fuel boards for future repair....