ootuoyetahi Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 How important is a video card in an unRAID server? I have a PC that has a motherboard without onboard video. I currently have an 8800GTS card in it, which I plan on taking out. I was hoping to be able to just throw any old video card in it just so the system will boot. I cant imagine the server really depending on the video card at all, but its better to ask and know for sure, than learn the hard way. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
burtjr Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 UnRaid is not video intensive, and at the worst should load VGA drivers. It is worth a shot IMO. Quote Link to comment
Johnm Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 I pulled a 10 year old 512k PCI card out of what i think was a packard bell and put it in my Gigabyte GA-EP45t-USB3P when I was running unraid that. it has a PCI video setting in the bios. It worked about 90% of the time at boot up. when it didnt boot, it just hung with no video. when it did boot, it worked fine until i rebooted. I Also had 2 MV8's on the same build and mixed speed ram. i honestly think the ram was the issue and not the video card. that board was never very stable for me. I dumped that build rather quickly. I'm sure any PCI or cheap PCIe 1X cards will work without an issue normally. Quote Link to comment
ootuoyetahi Posted September 7, 2011 Author Share Posted September 7, 2011 Great, thanks guys. Quote Link to comment
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