Life of a Sysadmin

The occassional trials and tribulations of a jack of all tr ades sysadmin in a startup in Silicon Valley

December 2007

Server video cards, or a cheap hack

That picture is indeed of a half height AGP video card with the mounting bracket removed and the connector cut off. The surgery was performed to cope with an annoying problem of many x86 systems; that of requiring a video card to be present to boot the system.

I have of course never used this card in a production system.

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