i've had good luck reflashing cards like that with working firmware from other good card (they can still be flashed even if the card won't "boot"). stick a heatsink on the one missing a heatsink, and try her out.
any word on performance, bios, or adaptec software working with the card? thanks!
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in what pcie slots does this work? the vitesse quick specs indicate the card will work in x1 through x8 slots (open ended x1, x2, or x4 slots.)
and xor processor spec:
"The MIPS64 5Kc is a high-performance, synthesizeable 64-bit RISC processor core optimized for low-power, battery-operated, system-on-a-chip and ASIC applications. Featuring a peak clock frequency of 310 MHz (0.13 micron process), the 5Kc core consumes just 0.5 mW/MHz. The 5Kc features a six-stage pipeline with branch control and single-cycle execution for most instructions, a co-processor interface, a 64-entry MMU, and up to 64 kbytes each of 4-way set-associative cache."