From:    Arnt Karlsen <arnt@???>

Date:    Mon, 23 Jun 2025 02:22:07 +0200

> > https://easthope.ca/SCSIcard.jpg
>
> ..put a clear, focused picture of the entire card there.

https://easthope.ca/SCSIcard.png from the best camera at hand. 1280
pixels wide. Most of the chip markings legible. For the silkscreen
on the board I'll need a better camera about 2 weeks out.

> ..what happens if you swap the 512MB ram chip
> in bank 1 with the 1GB ram in bank 4?
>
> ..your current setup looks veird to me, I usually see the
> same size ram chips paired into the same memory channels,
> usually memory banks 1 and 2 forms channel 1 and banks 3
> and 4 channel 2.
>
> ..if that fails, try removing the 512MB ram, the adapter
> card may be stuck looking past some hardware address limit
> for that elusive SCSI CD Boot Drive, or some such.

Removed the two 512 MB cards and put the 1GB cards in XMM1 and XMM2.
Behaiour as previously. The Radeon card with SCSI card absent gives a
display. https://easthope.ca/SystemBIOSmainPage.png
cf. original posted last weekend. https://easthope.ca/SystemBIOS.jpg

Both cards installed yields only a black display as earlier.

HP offered a BIOS revision. Not on their server now.

PC Galore might have a later SCSI card.

> ..are you able to set up a serial console to another pc?

Worked 10-15 years ago. Can bring a serial crossover cable from UBC next weekend.

> ..another way is give it a wee boot drive to try make it happy.

Will try the serial crossover cable before that.

My instinct is to create the boot content with the system installer.
Don't know how to splice into the extant installation. Documentation
can help. Without such documentation, a full reinstallation will be
almost fool-proof.

Thanks,                       ... P.

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