shawa

Hi,

I have an old Shuttle small form factor PC and am planning to convert it for use as a home server.
In order to reduce it's power consumption, I'm planning to remove the DVD drive and graphics card (the motherboard does not have built-in graphics).

The server will not have a monitor and I want to access it remotely from another PC.
Does anybody know for certain whether or not this will be possible or will the lack of a graphics card in the server, mean that it will not be able to display on the remote PC???

Obviously I would configure the remote connection before removing the graphics card.

Thanks in advance!

tarmac terror

iTrader: (2)

Not sure mate, why not just allow the graphics card to be suspended, or disable it from BIOS. Means if you need to hook up a monitor at some point for diagnostics or whatever, you can with minimal fuss.

I would doubt that a basic graphics card will consume a lot of power.

BlkKnight

It will need a graphics card to boot - but there is no need to plug a monitor into it.