Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Thu, November 5, 2015 12:07 pm, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I've got a new Dell R730 server. My users have two Tesla K-80's in it.Then, they wanted to add video, for complicated reasons.
Anyway, there's the onboard VGA; I just put in a Quadro K600 (they require DP, and this card offers that). Plug in a VGA monirot (the card even comes with two adaptors, one from large DP to DVI-D, and one DVI-D to VGA. (And according to the quick start guide, there's no additional power cable.)
Boot the system, and no video on from the card. In the BIOS, the only thing I see that appears to relate is enable/disable onboard video. I'm looking at that as a last option, since I have no idea how I'd *undo* it,
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In general, one shouldn't need to do anything in BIOS. On Dell workstations when PCI express video card meant to be exclusively used as video adapter in BIOS they make it "primary video", or sometimes totally disable onboard video. You can try the last, but if the box comes with no video output at all (so you will not be able to change BIOS settings), then you may need to use CMOS setup reset jumper to reset settings to factory default (of course, you can change BIOS setting without video, but you will need for that to remember all menus, and mouse the excludes, only keyboard can be used).
<snip> Actually, we like Dells a lot. At any rate, that, and what I found in a several year old thread that said the same as you, were the ticket: a) disable onboard video (it will work, if there's no monitor connected to the video card, and b) the monitor *must* be plugged into the card on boot.
And life is wonderful, and my users will be happy.
mark