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I have a pc with centOs installed. I want to treat it as a server. Then I remove the video card from that pc , but I can never boot it again

Motherboard: Gigabyte z77 d3sh

CPU: Xeon e3 1230 v2

When I plug the video card out, the computer never boots (because there is no video card, I can't see any messages).

How can I boot the computer without the video card ?

I have tried to find something in bios, but I cannot find what to set.

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    What do you mean without video card? Are you going to control it remotely? It shouldn't matter if there is one, the computer must boot without it just fine
    – Ashtray
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 9:09
  • @Alex I have a pc with centOs installed. I want to treat it as a server. Then I remove the video card from that pc , but I can never boot it again.
    – jilen
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 9:10
  • So.. with a video card everything worked? Could you ssh to it?
    – Ashtray
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 9:12
  • @Alex Yes. I can ssh to it.
    – jilen
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 9:13
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    @Alex I found no menu.list, superised... , And Now I found /etc/grub.conf, seems the same things as menu.list
    – jilen
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 9:27

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Reset to default
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Try to boot with a graphics card and have a look at this file: /boot/grub/grub.conf and find the line about splashimage (comment it out). There can be an issue of hanging at this stage if you have no graphics adapter.

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You shouldn't need a video card to boot. Try to ssh into it and see if there are any errors through there. If you can't find any errors there, reset all BIOS settings.

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