A couple of weeks back I bought for about $100 a defective CISCO PIX 520. The box came complete with one 16 MB Flash card and one NIC. The box was sold to me as "Motherboard defective" it is the Intell Al440LX moteherboard. I took apart PIX boxes before at work and noticed that they were actuall PC Mobos. That is why I reasoned that repairing the PIX 520 should be only a matter of replacing the board with an identicall one that retails for no more than $60. I also noticed that the newer boards on the PIX 520's are Intel SE440BX2 without sound modules. I went ahead and bought the new board and installed all cards but when I power up I get no console output. I reasoned that the Flash card might be bad and I installed one with 2 MB, still same results...No console output. I went to CCO and downloaded the Boothelper utilities to boot the PIX from the Floppy but that does not help either. I have read multiple discussions about "Clone PIX" and "FrankenPIX" where people stated that you can build one if you just have the Flash card... Aparently there is more to that. Any Ideeas? CISCO TAC told me that there is "special drivers for the console port" onboard the original Motherboards on a chip. I have some doubts about that considering that in all the times I contacted TAC with different issues I got vague answers and they allways missed the point regardless of the fact that I have a "Partner" contract. Meantime I acuired a "local director" with a working motherboard inside but without flash. I took that out and swapped out the PIX Mobo but I still get no console output. Meantime If I use the board as a PC board everithing is fine. Is there a certain BIOS that needs to be loaded on the Motherboard prior to installing the cards ? On the "sho ver" of some PIX 520 with 2 MB Flash there is a line: "Finesse Bios V3.3" is this line refering to the bios on the board or on the Flash card ?
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