They are running at reduced speed unless the temp is over ~90. I can answer most common questions about them. Nick On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Marco C. Mason wrote: > 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 > >
