The following highly unfortunate scenario happened: My motherboard stopped recognizing my graphics card completely. It's a ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero. Yesterday it just suddenly turned off when I was gaming, and when I turned it back on, the white VGA Q-LED came on and I had no screen since. I tried everything, cleaning and re-seating, tried the other PCIe slots, tried a different graphics card, tried different cables with different monitors, tried updating BIOS with flashbios, nothing works. The white VGA Q-LED is on and no screen at all. I know the PC itself works fine otherwise, I could boot into windows and I could even blind-type my password, so the system is working (I could hear the login sound when I logged in blind), I just have no way of seeing what's going on.
I can even see my shared folders from my other PC, but nothing else. I think Remote Desktop is disabled, I cannot RDP to it. Also can't connect any other means, Telnet, SSH, everything seems to be disabled (thanks to Norton 360 no doubt). I do have TeamViewer installed (and I might be able to start it blind even) but I cannot see the code needed to connect...
Can anyone think of some means to somehow get a screen working without a graphics card? I don't plan to keep using this PC, but I do want to save my data and settings if possible from this OS.
telnet
server, nor would it be recommended to install one sincetelnet
is inherently insecure because it sends everything as plaintext with no encryption. Windows does support OpenSSH, but this must be manually configured, and would be recommended if needing remote access to your PC (configured with an SSH key, not a user passphrase)