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This SUCKS
There are many ISA cards that cannot be found in PCI form. The RealWeasel is one of them. Many aquisition cards and even do-it-yourself ISA boards (as the ISA signaling/integration is MUCH SIMPLER than the PCI way)
We DEMAND an PCI2ISA converter with an external ISA card cage. (alltrough i'm not sure it will work as the ISA bus has access to all irq's and the PCI slots only to the four INTs assigned to them.)
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Actually, there is already a product that will do this. Check out PC Weasel. Their demo on the web site is very cool. Reboot the server and fiddle with the BIOS remotely.

Oh, yeah, video cards.

Don't get a video card, get a PC Weasel 2000.

It works like a (text-only) video card, but outputs to a serial line, so you can use a regular PC like a real server.

Of course, my vote would probably go for FreeBSD if you insist on a PC for NFS-serving, but other things (Irix and/or Solaris) might be better.

The PC Weasel

Looks just like what you need... once they're on the market. Of course, they likely are worth more than the hardware that they're going into. Then again, if you *really* need fast and continuous access to the console, then you're likely doing something that either deserves more reliable hardware or you can afford it. My preference is to just attach a set of KB/Video extension cables and have then close easily accessible to plug in when necessary.

I tried to submit this URL to slashdot, but
no one saw fit to post it:

www.realweasel.com

Sounds like you want one of these. They're not on the market yet, though, but they look super-cool.