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I currently have a poweredge 1950 (gen II i believe) in my possession setup as a ESXi vm host, i wanted to install a GPU in it i had lying around. its an NVidia 9800GT installed into one of the PCI-X x4(?) lanes using the stock riser.
When turned on, it no longer outputs to the default VGA port on the rear of the mobo, and instead to view the boot sequence I must connect to the DVI on the newly installed GPU. Problems start after this sequence has ended, and it either boots into the ESXi hypervisor or i press F2 and it attempts to enter the bios options menu. When this happens, when it is expected for it to boot to ESXi it just goes blank, nothing on screen - but there is still a signal being sent from the GPU as the screen doesnt go off. When trying to enter setup, the screen once again goes black apart from a blink underscore style cursor in the top left of the screen, left blinking for what seems an eternity.
I assumed that perhaps it was booting but not displaying correctly, but when i attempt to connect to ESXi from the vSphere client it fails to connect and i cannot see it attached to my network.
Does anybody have any idea what could be happening here? Thanks.
PCI-X x4(?)
. Dount it. PCI-e has x4 (and x1 and x16, ...). PCI-X is a different format. – Hennes – 2016-03-19T21:46:44.923