Re: Poweredge 2650 question

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Tyler David typed on Sun, 24 May 2009 15:51:46 -0400:
Hi,

I have a PowerEdge 2650 server and was wondering if there is anyway to
upgrade the video card. I see no way to disable the onboard video
card in the BIOS.

Many thanks

Well even if there are no ability to turn off the onboard video card in
the BIOS. Technically it still should work. As I would expect the
following things would happen.

1) Once the BIOS sees the other video card, it might automatically
disable the internal video card. Or at worse (or at best - depending on
how you look at it), run both at the same time which isn't really a bad
thing per se.

2) Once the OS loads up, you should have no problem disabling the one
you don't want running. And if you are running Windows, it should
remember what you told it to do. If it is running under Linux, you might
have to tell it after each reboot.

By the way, why do you want to replace the video card on a server
anyway? As it has me curious.

--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2


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