PCi III doesn't POST

I'm running Solaris 10 2008.05 on a Sunblade 2500, and I'm trying to install a PCi III card on it. I linked sunpcidrv.2100(.64) to sunpcidrv.290(.64), and ran the sunpcload command. Everything looked great, but after creating a new emulated disk, the thing just sits there. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, you can see it here: http://sagatagan.com/Screenshot.png. I tried reflashing the bios on the card, but nothing changed. To be honest, I do have an irregular hardware configuration: the boot disk is in slot 1, since (I think) the backplane is bad and slot 0 doesn't work, but I don't think that could be the problem. (I'm going to fix that some day.) Has anyone ever seen a problem like this before? Any suggestions? You can see the output of prtconf -vpD here: http://sagatagan.com/prtconf.out
Thanks,
Tom

someone suggested this may have to do with a BIOS limitation about how much ROM space can be used for initialization routines such as video BIOS, mobo BIOS, and any other I/O cards such as the SCSI... Apparently most SCSI cards use 64K or so of memory at init and shrink back to like 16K or so....
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