[vcf-midatlantic] Personal IRIS PSU repair

[Andrew Diller]

There is an ATX replacement for the Personal Iris:
https://hardware.majix.org/computers/sgi.pi/atx.shtml
http://archive.irixnet.org/sgistuff/hardware/tipstricks/pirispsu.html

I know of at least 2 people that have done this. Much better than fighting those PSUs, or at the very use this allows you to use your SGI while you fix the original PSU.

-andy


> On Feb 17, 2021, at 3:37 PM, Joseph Marlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> 
> Hey, all.
> 
> Just thought I'd reach out and bother everyone to see if there's anyone else out there who's dealt with a dead Personal IRIS PSU.
> 
> Apparently they pretty much all go eventually, but I haven't been able to find anything about what the common failure modes are.
> 
> Hoping there's someone with some thoughts or experience, because I'm massively a novice when it comes to power supply diagnosis.