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What I really wish about this article is that the author would say if they tried any other video card in this system. A DEC Alpha should load SROM and then jum
by LeFantome 2y ago
What I really wish about this article is that the author would say if they tried any other video card in this system.
A DEC Alpha should load SROM and then jump straight into SRM (firmware - BIOS essentially) or ARC (Windows NT firmware).
Any VGA capable PCI video card should work in an Alpha well enough to get into SRM, even if the RAM and/or SCSI controller are dead.
He said the Matrox video card did not work in other systems. But how about other video cards in his Alpha?
This is an amazing write-up but I want to know if he really needs to get into mini-console or if he just needs a working video card to get into SRM.
Perhaps there is something of use in here… (it describes working with the mini-console for example)
https://manx-docs.org/collections/antonio/dec/MDS-2000-01/cd1/ALPHA/AXFRMPGA.PDF https://manx-docs.org/collections/antonio/dec/MDS-2000-01/cd...