Monitor-less Computers

[Maxwell]

I remember, back in the day, that boxes with NVidia cards could be run headless without problem, but AMD cards required a monitor attached, or at least a dummy plug. Is that still the case, or can boxes with AMD cards be run headless now?

[cineon_lut]

I run PCs (win 7 or better) and Macs (10.7 or better) headless with AMDs all the time.

With a PC, don't use Remote Desktop, it will kill your GPU processes and boinc will revert to "no GPU detected". Run VNC or Teamviewer instead.

[Al]

Like Vic said...

[Maxwell]

Thanks, guys. That'll make life easier.

And TeamViewer all the way!

[zombie67]

One exception: If you are trying to crunch on the Intel HD graphics *and* a discrete GPU, you will likely have to plug in a monitor into the video port on the mobo. Otherwise it won't see both. Additionally, you will probably need to fiddle with the BIOS to get BOINC to see both.