Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:23:45 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: =?UTF-8?B?UHJ6ZW15c8WCYXcgTm93YWN6eWs=?= <p_nowaczyk@o2.pl> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Subject: Re: headless server... Message-ID: <42A70D81.1090907@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <42A704C5.8090003@o2.pl> References: <42A6C6A7.7040600@o2.pl> <42A6C7A8.3090404@pacific.net.sg> <42A6CCD9.5090404@o2.pl> <42A6D3C0.5080705@pacific.net.sg> <42A6F8FB.1020800@o2.pl> <42A6FD3E.2000503@pacific.net.sg> <42A6FE72.2010600@o2.pl> <20050608142529.GB499@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <42A700B5.6080902@o2.pl> <20050608143821.GC499@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <42A704C5.8090003@o2.pl>
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Przemysław Nowaczyk wrote: > David Wolfskill wrote: > >> >> I'm no expert on PC hardware, but that sounds as if the BIOS is >> deliberately probing the monitor, and if it finds "no monitor," it is >> not only refusing to boot, but refusing to drive the video card. >> >> That seems perverse in the extreme. >> >> And makes that board ill-suited for the taks at hand (headless server). >> >> I don't know the situation where you are, but my inclination at this >> point would be to "cut my losses" and stop trying to make it work for >> that function. And acquire a different system (or system board) for the >> function. >> >> Peace, >> david > > > Well.. I didn't thought about this box as a top priority server so as You > say I'll propablly leave it as is.. but it's a shame that a good and > "healthy" > box will stay in the corner and collect dust :P > I'm wondering only if it's posiblle that it's the power supply fault > (it's an AT Power Supply).. > thanks, > My next line of inquiry would probably be the video card itself. There seem to be few references to this sort of problem out there; but the two I've seen that matched your description most closely (and they weren't THAT close, but we seem to be dealing with a relatively rare issue <?>) were both nVidia cards... So, if I had another old card to stick in there, I might try that first . . . HTH, Kevin Kinsey
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