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I've been fighting with some issues on my unraid server recently and I'm at a point where I need a graphics card to see the actual video out as the machine boots. The psu in the chassis has no additional connectors that I could use for additional power to a graphics card.

Can someone point me in the direction of a super cheap graphics card that will be used for console only and not 3d graphics or gaming.

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[-] rockyracoon@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Another option is if the machine has a serial port that might be dumping useful info as it boots. A serial to USB cable is really cheap and you can read it with PuTTY.

[-] CitizenStile@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Would be nice, but the motherboard (GA-X99-UD4) is a desktop board with no serial out.

[-] NeverNudeNo13@lemmings.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is the way.... Setup and then open a terminal and then boot the machine... Helps to have console output logged on the host machine so you can review everything after... Some boot sequences can be tens of thousands of lines long on complex machines.

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