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Need basic graphics card to troubleshoot headless server (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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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 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you don't want to deal with the used market (which might be necessary to get super cheap) the Intel Arc a310 cards have HDMI/Display Port and are slot powered so no PCIe power needed. They're also sought after for their quite good video transcoding performance so reselling it after you're done would be pretty easy.

[–] rockyracoon 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was very close to doing this as I could repurpose it for video transcoding but ended up going with the Nvidia GT 710.

[–] rockyracoon 1 points 2 months ago

Nice, another good option. Hope you have luck debugging your machine!