BitWrangler wrote on Today, 17:35:

Nice! You're gonna need that kidney if you haven't got a dual board yet 🤣

The idea is to put them in an HP Kayak XU800. The biggest hurdle to take is getting Tualatin microcode into the BIOS, which can't be edited because the ROM file is encrypted. (If someone thinks I'm mistaken, please say so!)

Hmm is it some version of that Little Ben chip in the way I wonder? Though should not be super tough, given that they thought DES and CSS were invulnerable in 1998.

Edit: Just thunk, maybe do an end run around it and plant an ABit/Asus/Supermicro BIOS on a ROM on the ISA bus 🤣
Though further thinking along that line, should figure out a troubleshooting card, bare minimum AT class BIOS, just uses standard addresses basic modes for VGA, HDD etc, just enough to get a system going and find WTF is going on with it.