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dannyw ◴[23 Jul 20 16:44 UTC] No.23929233[source]▶
Hey OP, I was reading your linked HomeLab article and you mentioned you'd rather have gotten a mobo with integrated GPUs next time.

Actually, motherboards do not include integrated graphics, it's all in the CPU/APU. The mobo you linked would not provide graphics either.

AMD unfortunately does not have a high end APU released to consumers right now (there are some 4000 series, but only to OEMs I believe). However, for a HomeLab setup, you might find a cheap GPU to be useful for many things (including hardware video transcoding).

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1. PaulKeeble ◴[23 Jul 20 20:24 UTC] No.23931841[source]▶
I have MSI 450 MITX board and a Ryzen 3600 that is doing NAS/homeserver duty and it refused to POST without a GPU plugged in. Given its MITX and it only has a single slot needing it for PCI-E is a real pain, I intended to use it for SATA ports so it hurt my plans quite a bit.

Its motherboard dependent but its definitely something to check with AMD Ryzen motherboards.

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2. boring_twenties ◴[24 Jul 20 02:40 UTC] No.23935146[source]▶
Hm, I guess I lucked out then. I bought the cheapest motherboard I could find (at the time) for my 3600, an ASRock B450M Pro4. It makes a bunch of annoying beeps, but doesn't stop booting.
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3. tokenk ◴[24 Jul 20 08:19 UTC] No.23937033[source]▶
Second this. I got an unraid server working headless with an ASRock B450M ITX board (Fatal1ty) but it's still a real pain having to put in a GPU to boot into BIOS. Was hoping this could fix that for me :(
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4. boring_twenties ◴[24 Jul 20 21:00 UTC] No.23944380{3}[source]▶
Yeah, it's a real pain in the ass. I miss the workstations of yesteryear where you could do everything with just a serial console. Another example of technology actually getting worse over time.

Even hardware that is made to be run headless ("server-class") is hopelessly broken. They give you a proprietary graphical console that isn't even just a VNC server but has to be accessed with a web browser. And, if the server is more than a few years old, some deprecated, unsupported plugin like Java or .NET will be required. I have an old Dell R710 whose remote console I will never be able to access, because it only works with Java 6 (or so I'm told, I'm certainly never trying that; I wouldn't even know where to begin to try to set that shit up.)

5. swuecho ◴[25 Jul 20 01:09 UTC] No.23946052[source]▶
you might want to upgrade your bios to get headless support. https://www.msi.com/blog/with-upcoming-amd-processors-and-co...

if you are kind enough to report back whether it works with the newest bios, that will be helpful to others

6. swuecho ◴[25 Jul 20 01:10 UTC] No.23946054[source]▶
for some asrock mobo, headless is supported. my Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac is one of them.