my vbob is dead

[johnfxjhon]

hi everyone
Got a flint 9 2 on octane 2, and the vbob seems to be dead, no light on the rear pannel.

We experience a lot of trouble with it, loss of synchro, no signal. It has always been a pain in the … , never had any problem with flint on octane, but the octane 2 with this damned vbob, often crash when you need to output video. Always need to shut down the system, and restart it again. So the card died after 3 years. And now we need to buy a new one with te same trouble of stability i suppose.

Is it really serious with that king of machine, even if flint is less expensive than flame or inferno, it’s still a very expensive solution, it should stable.

Has anyone experience the same troubles?

Does anyone know if flint is stable on linux

Cheers

Sorry for my poor english.

[LK]

johnfxjhon wrote:

Has anyone experience the same troubles?

Yes, i had the same troubles with every vbob i met in my life!
Obviously, as the Murphy’s Law says, all the troubles appeared in the worst moments, if possible.
But now the “angry days” are gone, when i work with clients and vbob crashes my brain automatically switch to a sort of “super-fantasy-lie-justify” mode!

[BKM]

We had alot of troubble with our VBOB on Oct2 with our Smoke when we got it. SGI replaced it several times in the first year or so, we eventually got a stable board that was a new revision. (DM5)

Now it only flakes out when the incoming video is very unstable, and a full reboot will bring it back.

BKM

[Anonymous]

I have to disagree. We have two Octane2 with Flame8.5 here and I’ve never experienced any serious problem with the VBob.

Kamen

[Morten]

kmarkov wrote:

I have to disagree. We have two Octane2 with Flame8.5 here and I’ve never experienced any serious problem with the VBob.

Kamen

yeah. i disagree with you too kamen. i’ve had 5 vbobs on my octane2 running 8.5.6 before this relatively stable (thanks be to god!) one.

morten

[kalthans]

yeah, the Oct2 + VBOB solution is horrible. almost everyone has some type of problem with them

we have 2 systems here with that config and it think each as been through at least 2 vbobs

my best suggestion is to stay on hardware support (either thru discreet or a local SGI support reseller like XS Internationl….we have the latter and they have done right by us many times)

sorry to hear about your troubles….just know you are not alone

k

[Anonymous]

hmm I gues we are just lucky. 😀

[Morten]

kmarkov wrote:

hmm I gues we are just lucky. 😀

Praise the lord! 😉 I wonder (like johnfxjohn asked at the beginning of this thread) if anyone has any experience with Flinux and the stability of that configuration?

Morten

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