[rescue] Graphics on a E450

[Stephen Conley]

There were a few different E450 motherboards out there.  The cards 
you're listing there are all PCI cards if I remember right and they go 
in the PCI slots.

Let me apologize now because I'm recalling things from the early 2000's 
and I couldn't find much in the way of supporting photographs on google 
to help jog my memory.  I'm sure others will chime in to fill in 
whatever I'm remembering wrong.  Anyway!

Some E450 motherboards had the card slot you could use with graphics 
cards from an Ultra 1 / Ultra 2.  That plug in like sbus cards (UPA?) 
instead of PCI cards.  My E450 back in the day was one of those and I 
think I had a Creator3D card in it.

You'll want to see if your E450 motherboard has that or not in order to 
fully explore your options.  As I recall, the E450 motherboard is kind 
of shaped like an 'L' and the UPA slot you're looking for would be 
behind the drive cage in the upper part of that 'L'.  If you have that 
UPA slot, you also have an on-board audio system, but that requires a 
special breakout card that was INCREDIBLY rare back in the early 2000's 
when I had my E450 and is probably completely unobtanium now. (though at 
the time I had that and was extremely proud of it).

These E450s were "deskside workstations" as opposed to "servers" so it's 
unlikely the one you have has this, but, you never know I guess.  It's 
worth checking.


Good luck! :)  I loved my E450 more than I have words to describe, it's 
still the machine I have the fondest memories of I think ...


Steve

On 11/2/25 11:42, Alan Perry via rescue wrote:
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> I received a decommissioned E450 from work. I don't see a frame buffer 
> in it, so I guess it ran headless. The E450 falls into a gap in my 
> experience with Sun (I left the first time in '97 and came back in 
> '03). What graphics is supported and how does it compare to SS20 
> graphics? The System Handbook lists PGX, PGX32, PGX64, and Expert3D 
> but I hadn't heard of any of those before I looked at that list.
>
> alan
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