I"ve searched for help on this, but can only find unresolved posts.
I am hoping to remove my video card, to save as much heat and power as possible, it is just not needed.
I have an Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 motherboard, so no onboard video, and in the bios I have Halt On = No Errors.
But, when I remove the video card it does not boot, not sure if stuck in bios, or possible grub. Do I have to change something in Grub to say there is no longer a video card?
Boot with no video card
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Do you get beep codes? If you don't have a speaker get one. Then go to https://www.asus.com/us/Mother…_EVO_R20/HelpDesk_Manual/ and lookup beep codes.
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One short beep which is 'no keyboard' then that is it.
With video card in, I get the one short beep, this is at the UIFE bios screen, then it loads the pci-e sata devices, then a a 2nd slightly longer beep at the American Megatrends screen, then loads grub. Not sure if this tells me anything, or I am just sol. Not a OMV or grub issue though, I don't think. -
Don't know much about uefi but you may be able to tell it to use a serial connection for output instead of vga. Since you are just trying to save power, how much power does the card use? If it is a lot get a cheap low power one?
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It's a low wattage card, geforce 210, 35w, but still not 0, and it generates unneeded heat, it's fanless, so gets warm.
May not be much, but it's not nothing, and it's completely unused, so a waste, unneccessary power and heat.
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Redirecting video to serial may only be on servers to run them head less. Maybe an old pci card would use less wats?
Good luck
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sorry, headless is only possible in a small amount of server boards.
Desktop Boards (like ASUS), NEED a VGA to properl boot.
Sorry is a BIOS req.
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Ok, guess I'm sol, thanks for the suggestions.
I am going to try and use an old PCI card, but can't find any specs on it to see if draws less power, but I assume it would.
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