[email protected] Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 Hello everyone, I am having an issue with my unraid server. For some reason the onboard VGA is outputting a corrupted signal. The monitor recognizes that there is an output but it only displays vertical green lines (see image). I have: Rebooted, changed the vga cable, added a vga to hdmi adapter to use the other port on the monitor, swapped monitors completelly. The server works fine and i have no issues in the UI when i access it via the network. However, i wanted to change some bios settings and swap some hardware and i can't do that if i can not see the direct output of the server. Any help would be appreciated. Server details: Supermicro X9DRH-7TF , Version 1.02 American Megatrends Inc., Version 3.3 BIOS dated: Fri 13 Jul 2018 12:00:00 AM BST Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz Memory: 128 GiB DDR3 Multi-bit ECCstorage-diagnostics-20230902-1701.zip Thanks, George Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 I assume you cannot even get to the BIOS? That would suggest a hardware issue with the GPU, does IPMI work? Quote Link to comment
X09C Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 buy some crap gpu card to use and post with that. This is what i use EVGA GEFORCE GT 730. But I dont know if this will work because you may have to switch the output in the bios, which i am assuming you cannot get into because of the video output. But it is worth a try if you have an extra gpu laying around. You could also try to find a remote management at BIOS/UEFI level. Quote Link to comment
[email protected] Posted September 2, 2023 Author Share Posted September 2, 2023 I have already installed a spare GPU that i have but yes my problem is i can't get into the bios and it is still grabbing the onboard first. I also connected the IPMI but i am not seeing a new IP lease in my rooter. So it could be off. I tried to find the IPMIView software tha supermicro provides that can do lookup on the network but the download button on their page (https://www.supermicro.com/en/support/resources/downloadcenter/smsdownload) does not work. Quote Link to comment
[email protected] Posted September 3, 2023 Author Share Posted September 3, 2023 Small update, I did manage to download the IPMIView app. did a search on the network and it didn't find the server. I guess IPMI is turned off. At this point the only option would be a motherboard swap unless there is a way to force the system to switch from the onboard to the spare gpu without using the BIOS. Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 It seems there are a number of Jumpers on your motherboard. You should check if they are on the appropriate position. If that doesn't help, you might try to Clear CMOS ? Quote Link to comment
[email protected] Posted September 3, 2023 Author Share Posted September 3, 2023 Thank you @ChatNoir that was a good idea. I disabled the VGA so it was forced to grab the spare GPU. Sad that i need to "lose" my m4000 for display duty but its better than not having output. Maybe now i can fix the IPMI and not need a gpu output. Quote Link to comment
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