[ale] Curious video boot problem.

[James Sumners]

Is there not a setting for "boot regardless of errors"?

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Byron Jeff <byronjeff at mail.clayton.edu>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Long story. Problem is at the bottom of the post...
>
> A couple of years ago in search for a quieter desktop I purchased an Intel
> D2500HN MB with integrated Atom processor and video. At the time I could
> not figure out how to get the silly thing to boot, so I put it aside.
>
> Last month I reluctantly rejoined the Comcast legion as they save me $90 a
> month vs individual services and have 105Mb residential internet. I walked
> away from them last time because they needlessly encrypted their content
> such that each outlet required a settop box. At the time I was running a
> MythTV setup capturing analog content. Encryption killed that.
>
> My hopes that their whole house DVR service being usable were
> pretty quickly dashed. The integration between the DVR and the individual
> settop boxes is woefully lacking. I swiched from DISH and their Hopper
> setup. It's miles better in terms of both DVR integration and home media
> integration to the house DLNA server. And of course the settop boxes cost
> $10 a month apiece.
>
> Fortunately while I was away, solutions to the tuning of encrypted channels
> has been solved. I bought a HDHomerun Prime, got a cablecard from Comcast
> for $1.50 a month, and now I have three available HD tuners that MythTV can
> once again use. So I'm back into the MythTV business. I've done some
> testing using Kodi as a front end on a RasPi and it looks really good with
> each of LiveTV, Recorded, and DLNA home media. Just as a quick aside, if
> you try this setup and Live TV doesn't work, disable IPV6 in the myth
> backend.
>
> So on to my problem, which is the backend. In trying to implement the
> backend using cheap, efficient, and quiet components, I built one around a
> pcdiuno3 nano, which is a RasPi workalike with integrated SATA and Gigabit
> Ethernet. It works, but unfortunately it's unstable, locking up at random
> intervals.
>
> So in my search for more stability, I happened across the D2500HN again.
> It's faster, more memory, passively cooled, and Intel based. Perfect for
> the application. I dusted it off, threw in some laptop DDR3 Ram, and
> attempted to boot it again. Again no luck. But with some real motivation to
> actually get it working I dug a bit more. Eventually I came across a post
> that indicated that the boot booted with a PCI video card, and did not
> without one. I happened to have a PCI vidcard handy, threw it in, and lo
> and behold the board finally booted!
>
> I upgraded the BIOS to the latest version I could find and dug through the
> settings. On video the settings were Auto, External, and Manual. Since I
> wanted to get rid of the PCI card, I selected manual. But instead of seeing
> a listing with both the internal and external video adapters, the BIOS only
> shows the external adapter for selection.
>
> So I'm stuck. The board boots, but only if the external PCI video is
> physically installed. Even worse is that I'm trying into install into a low
> profile case, but the boot fails if I plug the card into the PCI riser. It
> only works if it's plugged directly into the PCI slot.
>
> I've never seen this before, and am seeking some help. If I'm really stuck
> I guess I'll just keep the card and just have it sticking out of the box I
> was planning to use. But this is going to be a headless box. So
> it really doesn't need even one video adapter, much less two.
>
> Any suggestions welcome.
>
> BAJ
>
> --
> Byron A. Jeff
> Associate Professor: Department of Computer Science and Information
> Technology
> College of Information and Mathematical Sciences
> Clayton State University
> http://faculty.clayton.edu/bjeff
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