[weblacky]

Hi Weblacky,

Today I had the time to look at the pictures, they are impressive. Thank you for such great work. I look forward to start my Fuel again.

Hi Blacksmith,
You're all paid up and your shipment will ship out on Monday at the UPS brown store. I will update your tracking information at that time. Don't keep me in the dark on how everything goes, so please keep me updated on any issues or even successes.

Thanks!

UPDATE: Package has been handed off to UPS Store!  Package should be on its way.

UPDATE 2: Canadian Customs had some hiccups and we have resolved it, delivery should now be on schedule for this coming Monday or Tuesday.  Backsmith, you have been terrific in your resolve, positive attitude, and very prompt communication throughout this process.  It's been a real pleasure doing business with you!

Cheers!

[weblacky]

Updated service terms and added a promotion
A few things I've been learned after doing a couple client mainboards and some additional terms needed to be stated for correctness as well as there's a new additional repair perk offering in cooperation with forum member kubatyszko, to help those getting their SGI Fuel system up and running again! This offer is limited-time and quantity, for Fuel mainboard repair customers, only. Terms are stated in the revised #1 post.

[blacksmith]

Hi Weblacky.

The board arrived today (Monday). Looks great. I installed back almost everything. Next step on Wednesday. I hope I will have the time to power it up. I'll keep you informed.

Thanks again.
Blacksmith

[weblacky]

Hi Weblacky.

The board arrived today (Monday). Looks great. I installed back almost everything. Next step on Wednesday. I hope I will have the time to power it up. I'll keep you informed.

Thanks again.
Blacksmith

Hi Blacksmith,
Thanks for letting me know you got the board safely.

You saw that I put a lot into packing that and at this juncture I am thinking about trying to find dedicated packaging for fuel boards to sort of permanently solve that aspect of the repair.

But good to hear it arrived and everything looks to be intact. I did not remove any of your RTCs/batteries so all your settings should be there but I would highly advise you to connect to your internal L1 serial header and monitor it during this start up for obvious reasons. As we've discussed you had a lot of different error messages and I'm still a little bit concerned about your PIMM 12V low voltage alert message because that will not be affected by anything I repaired. As the PIMM has its own DS1780 IC on it.

So I'd like to advise that you take it slow and watch your L1 first and verify your environmental monitoring and voltages look good and run the tests I advised on the expansion I/O and I2c buses (from L1).  Check fan RPMs and temps as your NODE0 temperature reading was definitely bad before.  The chips I replaced should control the listed NODE0, NODE1 and BEDROCK nodes.  The PIMM and XIO sensor value ICs are mounted speartely on their respective boards/cards.

Only afterwards would I say to use the power up command.  Also make sure to keep copies of the L1 log, especially if you end up resetting everything as a troubleshooting method.

I certainly hope everything resolves for you, But if you still have a few of the errors you posted before. I advise you to update the thread you had going for your initial problems, and we can continue to weed out anything left.  

Also, to summarize my advice on your potential PIMM issue, all the 12V rails (I assume) come from the 12V PSU, if your other 12V source looks good in the ENV table, and you still get a 12V PIMM error...I'd (personal option, no warranty in my statement) recommend temporarily shutting off ENV and booting anyway.  If you can get to the PROM and Main CPU runs...then your CPU would appear to work fine, then it's likely a bad DS1780 on your PIMM (CPU card) and you can send me your PIMM for DS1780 IC replacement, it will be MUCH cheaper to do that than the entire mainboard was to send and we've learned what we need to put this time for shipping.  

I am certainly excited to see what happens, go slow...take breaks...don't rush, that's how mistakes happen.

Cheers!

[weblacky]

For the record, Blacksmith has a scheduling conflict that prevents testing the results of the Fuel mainboard repair right now. I'm waiting to hear back from blacksmith on what symptoms, if any, remain. As the system may have additional issues based on the support thread: https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-3175.html

So no feedback has yet been left and this transaction is still open, but everything has been paid in full and the mainboard is back in blacksmith's possession. Hopefully we'll know more in a couple weeks. There may be more work required to replace the D1780 IC on the other system components (but not the mainboard). Either of us will update this thread when we know more.

[blacksmith]

For the record, Blacksmith has a scheduling conflict that prevents testing the results of the Fuel mainboard repair right now. I'm waiting to hear back from blacksmith on what symptoms, if any, remain. As the system may have additional issues based on the support thread: https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-3175.html

So no feedback has yet been left and this transaction is still open, but everything has been paid in full and the mainboard is back in blacksmith's possession.  Hopefully we'll know more in a couple weeks. There may be more work required to replace the D1780 IC on the other system components (but not the mainboard). Either of us will update this thread when we know more.

Hello there good SGI fans.

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As Weblacky mentioned I am in vacation in Europe until 20th of August, but before I left from Canada I had several minutes and I turned on the Fuel. Everything is great, my Fuel is back to life thanks to Weblacky repairs. 

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Thank you kindly, sir. 

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[blacksmith]

For the record, Blacksmith has a scheduling conflict that prevents testing the results of the Fuel mainboard repair right now. I'm waiting to hear back from blacksmith on what symptoms, if any, remain. As the system may have additional issues based on the support thread: https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-3175.html
So no feedback has yet been left and this transaction is still open, but everything has been paid in full and the mainboard is back in blacksmith's possession.  Hopefully we'll know more in a couple weeks. There may be more work required to replace the D1780 IC on the other system components (but not the mainboard). Either of us will update this thread when we know more.

Hello there good SGI fans.

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As Weblacky mentioned I am in vacation in Europe until 20th of August, but before I left from Canada I had several minutes and I turned on the Fuel. Everything is great, my Fuel is back to life thanks to Weblacky repairs. 

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Blacksmith

I am back from vacation and I had more time to test my Fuel. Please see the attached picture (1 picture is worth 1000 words).
I just want to state once more that in the whole process (shipping to, repairs, shipping back, customs) communication with Weblacky and his work were outstanding. I highly recommend him for fixing your vintage components.
Thank you again, sir.

Blacksmith
               

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