VC? Not sure what a VC is. I have owned like 4 K7D's and I have one here now. If you can clear up what a VC is I can probably give a definative answer.
I can pull the card out of mine and test. you don't need remote desktop just share a drive on the network. Pull the VC and then boot anbd see if you can connect to the drives. I don't think it will boot with no video at all. It will hang durring boot.
Question is why? You do not need a monitor to boot just a crad but even then.... what reason is there to build a dualie with no video you can't even shut down properly? You can get a used pci video card for a couple bucks? I run three or four computers through a KVM into one huge 21" monitor but NO VIDEO? Why? I have done this crap for 20 years and I can't even think of an application with current OS's to have no video at all? Not linux or windows anyway
Tex: We have Sun servers that are "headless" (no video)... If it's a server, many times there is just no need for a display. Cobalt RaQ servers are like that as well.
If you're trying to cram the board into a 1U rack case or something, then you can always get a PCI riser card and throw a $10 PCI crap card in there. A PCI riser card can be found at places like rackmountpro.com and servercase.com for a very fair price.
How do you shut them down properly? If from a command line you could have error messages and stuff and not login or type shutdown properly? Or an error on boot or?
Big KVM with tiny monitor I understand.
No video is hard to understand if its windows or unix based. I used to use suns a lot years back and they were just another unix variant. Maybe your using something much differant as a web server etc..
We have a SunFire V100 which is headless. If a shell is all you ever need, a video card does nothing for you. You log in remotely, shut it down, turn it on remotely (via LOM - lights out management), and do everything from remotely. There's no keyboard or mouse port, and no video card..... We use it for web, database, and mail.
I would run a rig like that for folding purposes. I keep them as barebones as possible for the cheap factor. In a lot of the bioses there is an option for not stopping on any errors. It's usually disabled by default. If it's changed it's quite possible to boot without the video card. My boards have onboard video so I don't have that problem but once I get winxp loaded I slap a copy of pcanywhere on them, throw them underneath some equipment where they are out of sight, and reboot them every once in a while via pcanywhere. I also have them monitored by electron microscope. No probs whatsoever with no monitors. I'll have to experiment to see if this works on a board without onboard video.
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Sorry but I just got to ask now.... why do you want to run a PC with no video at all? Cheap old video I understand. Old pci video I understand.
No video card I don't get since you couldnt even shut the PC down properly.
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Question is why? You do not need a monitor to boot just a crad but even then.... what reason is there to build a dualie with no video you can't even shut down properly? You can get a used pci video card for a couple bucks? I run three or four computers through a KVM into one huge 21" monitor but NO VIDEO? Why? I have done this crap for 20 years and I can't even think of an application with current OS's to have no video at all? Not linux or windows anyway
Tex
If you're trying to cram the board into a 1U rack case or something, then you can always get a PCI riser card and throw a $10 PCI crap card in there. A PCI riser card can be found at places like rackmountpro.com and servercase.com for a very fair price.
Big KVM with tiny monitor I understand.
No video is hard to understand if its windows or unix based. I used to use suns a lot years back and they were just another unix variant. Maybe your using something much differant as a web server etc..
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