Hey pps, doing a search I've seen 1 person managed to get their system to load up without the video card installed on a p5b i think it was.

 

I've been trying to do the same with mine, on an abit ic7. I've set stop on no errors. and from watching the usb stick flashing i can see it gets through bios and to the unraid/memtest86 load page, but thats as far as it goes, it wont start loading unraid after it's 5sec countdown.

 

So I'm thinking it's possible more an unraid thing rather then the computer ?

 

 

Hey pps, doing a search I've seen 1 person managed to get their system to load up without the video card installed on a p5b i think it was.

 

I've been trying to do the same with mine, on an abit ic7. I've set stop on no errors. and from watching the usb stick flashing i can see it gets through bios and to the unraid/memtest86 load page, but thats as far as it goes, it wont start loading unraid after it's 5sec countdown.

 

So I'm thinking it's possible more an unraid thing rather then the computer ?

 

 

If you have never booted unRAID successfully with a video card installed it could be almost anything.  Many BIOS have a setting to stop on any error, including a missing video card or keyboard.

 

The only way to know what is happening is to see the screen, or to calture the syslog.  Both are difficult without a monitor.

 

The light on the USB flashing simply means it is being accessed by the BIOS in some way.  It might just be probing to determine what it is, it does not indicate it is the currently selected boot device, or that it is booting from it.

 

Joe L.

when i've got the monitor connected i watch what happens, you get the initial couple flashes when bios is first loading, then about 10-15 seconds later, i get a few more flashes when it loads the unraid/memtest screen, then 5 seconds later it does it's load and flashes for a minute or so.

 

but without the vid card, i get the first initial flash when loading, the second when it's loading up the unraid menu, but then nothing more after the menu countdown

 

so it certianly seems like it's getting past bios, but unraid refuses to load after the menu countdown

Had any luck with this?

 

I have a machine up and running but want to take the video card out but having the same problem (unRAID does not load when card is out) I have turned off display errors in standard bios settings but wondering if something else needs to be done to boot without the card?

 

Cheers

 

The key on mine was to turn off the BIOS option about requiring <F1> on any error.  Have you tried pressing the <F1> key to see if it will continue on?

 

Yeah I've tried that with no luck - both F1 and disabled the display errors in bios. Bit stumped as cant see any reason it should not boot up.