Well I finally got my O2...in a million pieces

[praetor242]

I want to cry. Seriously. I just got my O2, and it's damaged beyond belief I was so looking forward to it, and it's not like you can get an O2

[khalidschofield]

No pic attached? I've a spare system in the UK I'm willing to sell. Are the skins broken?

[praetor242]

I don't know what all is broken. The skins are definitely shattered. I e-mailed the seller to see what they want to do about this.

[uunix]

Ah heck, but look how shiny the innards are!!

[praetor242]

Yeah. At least I have that going for me :p

[uunix]

Yeah. At least I have that going for me :p

It is a bummer, if you were close, I'd give you a new case.
[edit] Unsure that came out right!

[praetor242]

Thanks uunix That's awful thoughtful of you.

[sevenspirals]

My condolences, friend. That's a sad sight. Not to worry, though. You can probably get a non-working donor box on the cheap and swap the skins. Still it does suck! Freakin' shipper. The box looks like it was thrown around and drop kicked. Daayum!

[Raion-Fox]

Ugh that blows dude. My O2 has a shattered base but the skins are good.

If you find a non working O2 nearby then I need the base, if your base is intact or not.

[itsvince725]

I was planning on buying an O2 off eBay in the near future...but now I'm scared. Haven't seen shattering like that since FedEx destroyed one of my Macs.

[praetor242]

Well, the seller got back to me and refunded the cost for the system and shipping. It works. It has a 180Mhz R5k with 160MB of ram. Needs a drive, as y'all know. But it's fully functioning. Just needs skins.

Sorry, Raion bud, the base is totally shattered. In fact, when I pulled the system out of the box, there were shards of unhappy blue O2 entrails at the bottom.

[Raion-Fox]

My O2 survived pretty intact, see my youtube channel here:



I know my production value is ass as is my camera work. This is only done because I decided to give it a try. I'll probably get better at this in the future once I get a DSLR I can shoot with.

[praetor242]

uunix:

No you being far isn't what I have going for me. Your comment about the shiny innards. I wish I had SGI peeps near me

[praetor242]

Yeah. Raion. What a great deal!

[Dodoid]

Not as close to a million as I expected. I would actually wonder if superglue could work. If it doesn't, maybe consider gluing it together with something more visible and then following this thread: viewtopic.php?t=16725453 . If it can't look original, at least make it look cool. You can still buy another skin, just thinking of uses for the old one.