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I have managed to make the text scroll on the tv, which is connected to the onboard VGA. I used Bios Version F06, which is the last bios that has the ability to allow onboard VGA as enabled. I also made the Unraid Memory stick by downloading the ISO, extracting it, and with the "make bootable bat" i made it bootable. I also enabled, boot mode Legacy in the Motherboard. Previously, i had made the Unraid Memory stick with the Executable launcher that downloaded the iso, and i had always checked Bios UEFI. The Motherboard bios booting mode had also been set to UEFI. However, i still couldnt get both machines to start. Only one i could get it to boot the Windows ISO, the other one had no Image on the Monitor. After that i played with ProxMox, and while attemtping to manually enable IOMMU and add a PCI device, i had notied the following: Both my GPUs have the same device ID. Could this be the reason why i cant get two different VMs to run, each getting one of These two VGA ? I could get two VMs to boot, one with a VEGA Card, and one with the Geforce Titanium 750, and i assumed it was a matter of PCI express Placement. Which is why i got a PCI express extender, and tested with that as well. with the upper VEGA connected to the 4th PCI Slot instead of the 5th. Because i noticed in the original LinusTechTips Video, he had two different GPUs, and mentioned different brands of mice and Keyboards.

I see. Recently the unraid gui option dissapeared from my boot menu, and i remade the memory stick.

So if i can browse the Internet with Sound in 4k@60fps with the AMD Drivers installed within the unraid GUI, and while not doining it, leave the Card to mine, it would probably be worth it to spend 150 eur. Otherwise not. So please let me know if such a Scenario is possible.

Due to how my Motherboard is consturcted, i Need to populate the Motherboard 5th Slot with a low end GPU Card. Regardless of bios Settings, the gpu sitted here is what Unraid will use for itself. So im in the market for a new GPU, that must be single Slot; this will allow me to use the Motherboard 6th pci Slot as well. Im going to be connecting a 4k TV to this Single Slot Graphic Card, and i have some questions i couldnt find answer for anywhere. 1)If i will boot Unraid Gui, (will then UNRAID use the GPU to Display ist gui?), ive seen the unraid gui basically has a Mozilla browser built in. Would i be able to use the UNRAID GUI in 4k@60 fps, and use all the Features one would expect from a normal browser, like YouTube, Videos, Music? etc, as if i were using a browser in a normal Windows/Linux enviroment ? The GPU supposedly has also a Sound Card built in. And Sound would be transmited through HDMI to TV 2)Would i be able from this Unraid GUI to install Radeon pro Drivers for the Video Card, and use it to mine crypto ? from within the unraid GUI console ? Provided all the mining programs are on the boot Memory stick ? And i would acces them with the console. If all this would be true, i would then get an AMD WX 3100 Card, which has 4k60fps Support through its DP ports (i would Need a HDMI Adapter), and i could use the unraid gui to browse web, and the Card set to mine Crypto. If None of this would be possible, i would get a dummy Card. But i would at least want to have proper 4k Support in the gui, for at least browsing in moziila text based Websites, at least.... I want to know because the Card is aprox 150EUR, i dont want to throw 150EUR just for something i wont use, i would be better off spending only 30 only a less speced single Slot Card.

I even tried the VBios Trick, still no results. I am all left out of ideeas. I have mailed SpaceInvaderOne, perhaps he can figure something out. Also im putting a bounty of 25000 MUTEX up, payed in full to whoever figures out hte working solution More on MutexCurrency here https://mutexcurrency.io/ Here is the announcement i made on our Discord Chanell.

According to the Manual My Vega Cards are in slot PCIE_3(No.37) and PCIE_1(No.35). Geforce Titanium is in slot PCIE_5(No.39) So chosing "Legacy VGA" in Bios with external and Slot Number 3, would have chosen the Frontier Card. But i have tried again with slot number 5. Same thing. Unraid is hell bent on Using the Cadin PCIE_3 as its own. I dont think there can be a fix for this. Its probably the way the Motherboard is created internaly, could that be it ?

Only way i can trick Unraid not to use the card and have its boot text appear scrolling on the big tv (connected to either the geforce titanium or the onboard VGA) is by disconnecting the cable from the upper frontier card. But if i connect the cable afterwards, and create a VM with the Frontier card, im not getting any image afterwards. So it seems a cable must be connected to the Frontier card from the get go, which, if it happens prompts unraid to take the card for itself, then i cant use it for the VM. What an utter shit !

Updates. There is an option in the bios, called, Legacy VGA, but its empty. THis is on the latest Bio F10. Lucky i can update the bios through the IPMI, so i went to F06 i had before unraid. With F06, the Option of "Legacy VGA" is not empty any more, and i can change to auto, onboard, external, and when external, i need to input slot. I tried with onboard. Text still scrolls on the monitor connected to the Upper Frontier on the 5th PCI Slot. I tried with External, and set it to slot 3, where the Geforce 750 titanium sits. Text still scrolls on the Upper Frontier Card. As long as text scrolls on this card, i cant use it for the VM. Making a VM with the other card, or evne with the geforce 750titanium card, works. But so long as the Upper Frontier card is selected for the VM, it just doesnt work. Bios F09 and F10, the "Legacy VGA Option is empty". F06 is not empty. I can still try other Bioses. But it looks like Unraid is hell bent on taking this Frontier card for himself, no matter what. ANd the problem is Slots 5 and 7 are the only slots where i can install the said cards. Unless i could somehow connect the frontier card to the upper PCI slots, through some sort of external enclosure. I still need to see how Unraid reacts to having in the sistem, those usb graphic adapters. Is there no way to force unraid by commad to use a certain Graphics Adapter ?

I noticed they are listed in this order because of how they are grouped in the IOMMU groups, and here lies the key to my situation. Group 61 ASPEED Group 64 Upper Frontier Group 82 Geforce Titanium Group 85 Lower Frontier I need to somehow reshuffle them !

Installing a Geforce 750 titanium make the First Frontier Card, still sit at the second place, and when botting up unraid, i still get text scrolling on the Monitor connected to this card. It seems unraid is hell bent in using it for himself. Ill try ACS ovveride perhaps theyere going to be arranged differently.

Im planing to get something like this and insert something like this This has a HDMI and 2 USB slots, so i could conenct a mouse and keyboard, that i could thus use exclusivly for managing UNRAID. Will this be seen as a graphics adapter ? I have a spare 750ti since like forever, going to install it, and see how the system behaves. I would rather have the above components, since they will be located on the outside, and will allow me through the ports to controll the unraid consolle, without needing to use the mouse and keyboards assigned to the VM. Curious, how the system doesnt take the onboard video as it should. If there was a way to bind Unraid to use the onboard graphics, by specifing exactly to use the onboard card, it would be much easier. I think you should create this option for future versions.

i need to hardcode somehow to make unraid use the onboard vga. You can clearly see there are 3 cards in the system when assigning the cards to the windows VM. I m asking, if the Onboard card is used by Unraid, isnt then suppose NOT to appear on the list of selecteble graphics cards for the VM ? The card has its own IOMMU group And the Vegas are also in different groups themselves.

It is a VGA port, and i have a VGA to HDMI adapter to connect to the TV. When the TV is thus connected, when booting, text appears rolling on both the TV and on the monitor connected to the first AMD Vega card. BUt the text is different. THere is no setting in motherboard bios to enable by default. I could replicate the above photo, only when the TV is disconnected though, which seems strange. Wide monitor boots iso, the other one cant.

Isnt there a way to edit the Syslinux configuration to make Unraid use specifically the onboard graphics ? Or to deny it the Vega Frontier Cards ? Ill take a look in bios see if i can find anything

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees this was it. Unraid uses the upper frontier edition for itself it seems, when trying to create a vm passing through this card it wont work, i created a vm using the second card, and it from within the uefi bios i booted the win iso and it loaded it. SO it seems unraid is using one the upper frontier edition for itself, even if im accesing it through a gui ui. Now the next problem is to figure out, how to give unraid the onboard video, if it can use it at all, and if not i need to put a gpu in the first slot. It seems Unraid uses what ever gpu is inserted first, or how is it exactly functioning ? I thought Unraid was suppose to use my onboard GPU ! Is there any way to force Unraid to use it somehow, writing a line somewhere ? If i can figure this out, everything checks out finally, Holy damn !, it took me a while of fussin around. 1 Week to be more precise. Notice how the left monitor has the text on it, that is connected to first card, and it seems it is being used by unraid. Creating the VM with the second card connected to the wide monitor, worked, and i managed to start the windows iso.