Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Thu, November 5, 2015 12:07 pm, m.roth at 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, <snip> > 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