Booting without a video card possible??
Booting without a video card possible??
I have an old 2U rackmount case that I'd like to put my BP6 into for my home internet server/router. There's only 3 PCI slots on the riser card, and they're taken up with 2 nics and a scsi adapter. Is there some way to make this board boot without a video card present? Thanks in advance
Yeah I did try that first, but I still get the video error beeps so I figured it was impossible with this board. I didn't want to switch everything over to this board if I wasn't able to leave the video card out. So I thought I'd check with you guys first
Maybe I'll try to boot to a CD without video to verify that it POSTs even with the beep error.
Maybe I'll try to boot to a CD without video to verify that it POSTs even with the beep error.
Set it up with video for network access. Pull the video and see if you can still access it.pharaoh wrote:Maybe I'll try to boot to a CD without video to verify that it POSTs even with the beep error.
There are *almost* no bad BP6s. There are mostly bad caps.
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Athlon 2800
Sempron 2000
ViaCPU laptop with Vista.(Works great after bumping ram to 2Gig)
P-III 850@100
No BP6s remaining
Athlon 2800
Sempron 2000
ViaCPU laptop with Vista.(Works great after bumping ram to 2Gig)
P-III 850@100
will it still boot tho?
that'd be cool to control a pc with no video card
that'd be cool to control a pc with no video card
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I've tried this with a different Abit board that I used to use, and it didn't go on and boot after the error beeps. I ended up not needing to keep the video card out of it after all (using a different case now). But I'm thinking that if it was going to work without a video card then it wouldn't give the error beeps at all.
I worked with a tool company in the 90's with multiple toolrooms in a chemical plant. One system was the server and others connected via 10Mb nics. One of my co-workers fried the keyboard interface on the server mobo (a 486-33) and I had to back the system up using one of the remote terminals. It was pretty cool, except for having to yell to the fool when it was time to put in the next floppy disk.
I will try, next week to boot my BP6/less video and access it via my home network. I am not experienced enough to try anything other then MS operating systems.
Pharaoh, what OS are you planing to use?
I will try, next week to boot my BP6/less video and access it via my home network. I am not experienced enough to try anything other then MS operating systems.
Pharaoh, what OS are you planing to use?
There are *almost* no bad BP6s. There are mostly bad caps.
No BP6s remaining
Athlon 2800
Sempron 2000
ViaCPU laptop with Vista.(Works great after bumping ram to 2Gig)
P-III 850@100
No BP6s remaining
Athlon 2800
Sempron 2000
ViaCPU laptop with Vista.(Works great after bumping ram to 2Gig)
P-III 850@100
Sorry, it's been awhile since I've been back here I run Gentoo Linux for my server and desktop machines www.gentoo.org Right now my BP6 won't boot anymore and I'm hoping it's that capacitor issue since mine does have the "too small" size on it. I have the new one, just no soldering gun at the moment. Soooo anyway...
I don't think this runs without a video card. Even with "halt on no errors" set in the bios, it won't boot. So I guess my only options are to either ditch SCSI or use a NIC that has 2 ports on it so as to free up a slot for the video card. Or I could just not use the 2U case
I don't think this runs without a video card. Even with "halt on no errors" set in the bios, it won't boot. So I guess my only options are to either ditch SCSI or use a NIC that has 2 ports on it so as to free up a slot for the video card. Or I could just not use the 2U case
Im kinda foggy on whats needed here. A riser card on a BP6?
Anyway, I used to have a really short ISA vga card.
One of those might do the trick.
Anyway, I used to have a really short ISA vga card.
One of those might do the trick.
There are *almost* no bad BP6s. There are mostly bad caps.
No BP6s remaining
Athlon 2800
Sempron 2000
ViaCPU laptop with Vista.(Works great after bumping ram to 2Gig)
P-III 850@100
No BP6s remaining
Athlon 2800
Sempron 2000
ViaCPU laptop with Vista.(Works great after bumping ram to 2Gig)
P-III 850@100
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uhm, there is an AGP slot for the video card.pharaoh wrote:I don't think this runs without a video card. Even with "halt on no errors" set in the bios, it won't boot. So I guess my only options are to either ditch SCSI or use a NIC that has 2 ports on it so as to free up a slot for the video card. Or I could just not use the 2U case
and you can get not fat agp cards, might need to cut the tall metal bit off though