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#16
01-29-2008, 12:30 AM
You probably don't need a Video Card.
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#17
01-29-2008, 05:24 AM
I believe if you go Linux you don't need video at all
If you go windows you need a VGA adapter (remote desktop), best thing to do is buy a mobo with on board graphics, or a cheap ass 32mb old PCI video card Smile
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#18
01-29-2008, 05:51 AM
I have never seen a mobo without at least an integrated video card. You dont have to buy one.
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01-29-2008, 05:54 AM
his mobo is a desktop board, it's not going to boot without a video card. the most he'll get is a series of beeps telling him he's got no video card.
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01-29-2008, 09:30 AM
Still it would most likely have a video card. He probably wont have to buy one.
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#21
01-29-2008, 10:24 AM
look up the mobo, it's got NO video card. it's a desktop board NOT a server board.
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01-29-2008, 01:53 PM
Yeah the mobo I have does not have a vga.
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01-30-2008, 08:35 AM
fqdn Wrote:look up the mobo, it's got NO video card. it's a desktop board NOT a server board.
WOW. How could I have missed that XD. Sorry but jeez no on board video? Thats wierd.
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#24
01-30-2008, 09:11 AM
Onboard video has been taken off of desktop mobo's cause it's not needed anymore (everyone buys graphics cards anyways these days), unless you run a server Smile I use an old Matrox 8MB PCI video card and it works like a charm (got it from the second hand dumpster for 2$ in some store)
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01-30-2008, 10:33 AM
lol 2$ video card. What has our world come to?
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