Lumpy_BD Posted April 9, 2024 Posted April 9, 2024 Formany years now I've had an intermittent issue where my server fails to restart properly but only when there is no monitor connected. When I say intermittent, I'd say anecdotally, it reboots properly maybe 1 in 5 times, but the other 4 times, it just doesnt come back up after rebooting. If it fails to come back up, and I connect a monitor, then I get a completely black screen. If I then reboot it again with the monitor connected, then everything works fine. Given that if I reboor my server twice a year its a lot, this hasnt really been very high on my list of things to sort out. After doing some research a while back I bought a dumb HDMI plug to connect to the server but that hasnt made any difference. For reference, its an 5th gen Intel i5 with onboard graphics, although I also added a discrete video card which made no difference so I took it out again. Could anyone perfhaps provide some thoughts on how best to go about troubleshooting this? Quote
JorgeB Posted April 9, 2024 Posted April 9, 2024 Leave a monitor connected? The HDMI plug should have done the same thing, possibly it's was bad? Not much else you can try, since this is not a software problem, some boards/GPUs don't post if they don't detect a monitor, though it's strange sometimes it does. Quote
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