[ale] Curious video boot problem.

[Jim Kinney]

Sounds like a crappy bios and a bad pci riser card. Can you flash with an older bios?

Also sounds like OS is stuck on video init and may be the issue. Can you try a different boot kernel? Maybe set video to vga or simplest modeset line or similar.

On August 3, 2015 2:33:50 PM EDT, 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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