Hello, OSS @ SGI gang-- I need a little help, please! As a result of a company closing, I've received a pair of SGI Origin 200 servers. Unfortunately, since the support contract on them has expired, I can't seem to use any of the support services at www.sgi.com. I'm just a home experimenter who wants to run the things 'til they die. I'm very pleased with the performance, software, etc., and I'm very familiar with them (as I worked on them 8 hrs / day for a year and a half until the office closed). The only difficulty is that these things are LOUD! I'd like to find out if there are any temperature monitors inside the thing, and if I can run the fans at a reduced speed, or remove some of the fans to make them reasonable in a home environment. They don't do a lot (as I just do some CPU-intensive stuff on them every once in a while, and very little disk-I/O). Thus, I'd like to find a contact for simple (but technical) hardware questions like these on the Origin 200. If you guys could send me a friendly contact or two, I'd be very grateful. (I'm also interested in making the thing dual-boot Irix & Linux, if the Linux port is close to operating... I've also got a pair of Indys that I'm planning on sacrificing to the Linux gods...) Thanks in advance-- --marco
