kizer Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 I dropped a Xeon E3-1225 onto my New to me ASRock Z87 Extreme 6, I'm getting a 99 on the digital readout from the Mother Board which is saying to re-seat the VGA Card, which I was planning on using the on board video the Mother Board is complaining that there is no video. I'm guessing its because with this particular Mother Board/Processor setup its not liking the Lack of Video Card support from the Processor, but I thought my particular Xeon had Video Support. Does anybody have a Video Card recommendation? I'm trying to keep my system kinda quite and haven't dropped into using VMS's. I just use Dockers and a few Plugins. I might have one laying around the house so I can simply boot this thing up and do some testing. However I'm always open to new ideas and I'm interested in the idea of Transcoding via Hardware, which I can only assumes a decent Video Card from Plex. **********update**************** Threw in a Low Quality PCI-E Card and it booted right up straight into the BIOS and then I tinkered and then it loaded up unRAID just fine. Just have to box it up and hook up all the drives. I still want to consider if I should even bother with a Decent Video Card to run anything other than a few Dockers and Plugins thou. Quote Link to comment
charleslam Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 if you dont use vm's i say cheaper the better. Quote Link to comment
John_M Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 I've got a cheap PCI card from ebay in one of my servers, saving the precious PCIe slots for more important cards. Quote Link to comment
s_mason16 Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 according to this intel ark spec sheet your xeon does have an igpu. maybe in your motherboard there is a setting that needs to be toggled to enable it, also check the motherboards most recent bios version and maybe some others. Quote Link to comment
kizer Posted November 1, 2017 Author Share Posted November 1, 2017 1 hour ago, s_mason16 said: according to this intel ark spec sheet your xeon does have an igpu. maybe in your motherboard there is a setting that needs to be toggled to enable it, also check the motherboards most recent bios version and maybe some others. Thanks. I didn't think of that honestly. I'll attempt to take another trip through the Bios. I did drop in a cheap VGA card with a fan on it, but I was trying to avoid noisy fans spinning and things in the case I simply don't need. This does shed some light on the problem. DOH!!!!! Lol I need to take a looksee at the BIOS some. Of course that means I would of had to use a Card just to get into the BIOS, then remove the card. How silly, but hey whatever huh. http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2298943/asrock-z87-motherboard-hdmi-working.html Quote Link to comment
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