There are two series of the Visual Workstations. All are based on Intel processors; the first series (320 and 540) used SGI's ARCloader PROM and Cobalt video chipset, the remainder are essentially standard PCs. The 320 and 540 use a Unified …

SGI 320 Visual Workstations. The systems here come with a 90 day(from receipt) warranty that covers the hardware only against failure. 1 Year warranty is available for another 10%. SGI 320 Visual Workstation. Single 550MHz PentiumIII processor expandable to 2x1GHz 256MB Memory(in one bank)expandable to 1GB 9GB Ultra2SCSI Hard Drive

2021年6月23日 · Please help with troubleshooting two SGI VWs - 320 and 540: VW320 powers up when cable is connected to PSU. It does not react to power button. Its LED blinks indefinitely as if DIMM 2 was defective. But swapping and replacing memory does not help. Nothing on the screen. Reacts to reset button. VT540 powers up when power button is pressed.

Unlike later Intel based systems the Visual Workstation 320 and 540 are based on SGI technology. These systems do not include a BIOS like Intel based PCs, but an ARCS PROM like the MIPS based SGI workstations. The Visual Workstation 320 and 540 both feature a unified memory architecture which makes use of the SGI proprietary Cobalt chipset.

2024年10月5日 · The following tutorial will show you how to make a clean installation of Windows 2000 on your SGI 320. The 'Basic Installation' includes all the preparatory steps that must be performed in the System Firmware before performing the OS installation.

2020年12月24日 · The SGI 320 and 540 models shipped with the optional 1600SW TFT display. This flat panel runs at a SuperWide resolution of 1600 x 1024 pixels at 60Hz in 24-bit colour and 110 dpi. The display won 16 international awards and despite its age, it still compares well to modern displays produced nearly a decade later.

SGI 320 NT工作站最多可配备两个Intel Pentium II 450MHz处理器和1GB Ecc SDRAM内存。 它还配有按业界标准的三个PCI扩展槽、两个存储器槽位、集成软驱、32倍速CD-ROM以及可选的最多达14.4GB的Ulra ATA133硬盘，也可以使用 9GB Ultra2 SCSI硬盘。

2022年9月27日 · This video shows you the inner workings of a Silicon Graphics 320 Visual Workstation: [video=youtube]

2017年3月11日 · The SGI 320 and its bigger brother 540 (and boy is it big) were unusual sort-of PCs that ran off the shelf Windows, err, well with some patches, had Intel x86 CPUs, USB ports, and VGA output. But they also had non-standard power supplies, lots of tiny DIMMs (which were effectively PC100 SDRAM broken in half), and an ARCS firmware.

The SGI 320 uses a Unified Memory Architecture in combination with it's Integrated Visual Computing Architecture (IVC). This concept can also be seen in SGI's O2(+) range of UNIX workstations. One of the benefits of using a UMA architecture is a shared pool of memory being available to all subsystems.