I have old Permedia 2 and S3 cards for the same reason. :-).And should the day ever come, heavens forbid, that a card has passed into the silicon beyond, remember that SRM can boot headless and has a serial port console on COM1. Different baud rates (9600 or 19200) are possible depending on the motherboard and SRM port settings. It may need a nudge with the ENTER key to get the SRM >>> prompt.
Alan Bob Tracy wrote:
Next, boot the machine (still in AlphaBIOS at that point), go into setup and switch to the Digital UNIX console (SRM), save settings, and reboot. Now in SRM, at the ">>> " prompt, set pci_device_override as indicated above. Powered down the machine. Swapped out the video card. Voila! All is well. Definitely felt that cannonball whizzing by overhead. --Bob