New finds, RFI

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote: That listed for $26,205 in October 1997 (congratulations: you own a piece of hardware that cost as much as your car did, but lost way more value). It's still one bad-assed video card, but again, the problem is that they consume megawatts of power (ok, not literally, but you get the idea). I ran my server for a few minutes and then went to pull the card and it nearly burned my hand. Those heat sinks need a couple fans. By the way, (OT) the BIOS on my HP Kayak XW apparently got zapped. I'm trying to run the emergency flash procedure (you set a swicth on the motherboard and then it boots off the floppy, loading the flash program and running it) but it's not working for me. The computer definitely loads the program off the floppy but then hangs. I don't hear the beeps I'm supposed to. I verified that the disk has no errors. Anyone have any experience with this? I'd hate this server to go to the scrap heap as it's mighty nice (on-board ultra-wide SCSI RAID controller, 512MB RAM, dual Pentium-II Xeon 450, diagnostic front panel LCD display). -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]