[rescue] Re: Octane woes

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

>Hello Curtis,
>
>Friday, March 7, 2003, 2:53:36 AM, you wrote:
>
>> it is live again....
>
>  good to hear. ;-)
>
>> Wouldn't mind finding better graphics too...  ESI can have or not have
>> the TRAM I believe... how can I tell if I have TRAM  (w/o an OS loaded) ?
>
>  The TRAM is a small module covered by these massive black heatsinks
>  that you already know from the rest of the graphics board. It plugs
>  into the only free space on the graphics board. So if you have two
>  heatsinks (one big, one small) you should have TRAM and if you can
>  spot an "empty space" you don't.

I got empty space with like two or three connectors in it... so looks
like I'm tramless :-(.

I'm guess it probably is cheaper to get a whole board, or possibly a
whole Octane that is priced right rather than to try to find just a TRAM...
eh ?


>
>  If you begin hunting for a TRAM module: Note that E class graphics
>  requires a different (faster) TRAM module than the original Octane I
>  class graphics.
>
>

I have ESI, not SE, so the older TRAMs would work... (I'm guessing these
are different TRAMs than used on Indigo 2 high and max impact boards ?)


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Thanks,

  -- Curt