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I have MSI 450 MITX board and a Ryzen 3600 that is doing NAS/homeserver duty and it refused to POST without a GPU plugged in. Given its MITX and it only has a s

I have MSI 450 MITX board and a Ryzen 3600 that is doing NAS/homeserver duty and it refused to POST without a GPU plugged in. Given its MITX and it only has a single slot needing it for PCI-E is a real pain, I intended to use it for SATA ports so it hurt my plans quite a bit. Its motherboard dependent but its definitely something to check with AMD Ryzen motherboards.

boring_twenties 6y ago
Hm, I guess I lucked out then. I bought the cheapest motherboard I could find (at the time) for my 3600, an ASRock B450M Pro4. It makes a bunch of annoying beeps, but doesn't stop booting.
- tokenk 6y ago
  Second this. I got an unraid server working headless with an ASRock B450M ITX board (Fatal1ty) but it's still a real pain having to put in a GPU to boot into BIOS. Was hoping this could fix that for me :(
  - boring_twenties 6y ago
    Yeah, it's a real pain in the ass. I miss the workstations of yesteryear where you could do everything with just a serial console. Another example of technology actually getting worse over time. Even hardware that is made to be run headless ("server-class") is hopelessly broken. They give you a proprietary graphical console that isn't even just a VNC server but has to be accessed with a web browser. And, if the server is more than a few years old, some deprecated, unsupported plugin like Java or .NET will be required. I have an old Dell R710 whose remote console I will never be able to access, because it only works with Java 6 (or so I'm told, I'm certainly never trying that; I wouldn't even know where to begin to try to set that shit up.)
- swuecho 6y ago
  for some asrock mobo, headless is supported. my Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac is one of them.
swuecho 6y ago
you might want to upgrade your bios to get headless support. https://www.msi.com/blog/with-upcoming-amd-processors-and-combo-pi-bios-is-coming-on-msi-am4-300-400-and-500-series-motherboards https://www.msi.com/blog/with-upcoming-amd-processors-and-co... if you are kind enough to report back whether it works with the newest bios, that will be helpful to others

boring_twenties 6y ago

Hm, I guess I lucked out then. I bought the cheapest motherboard I could find (at the time) for my 3600, an ASRock B450M Pro4. It makes a bunch of annoying beeps, but doesn't stop booting.

tokenk 6y ago
Second this. I got an unraid server working headless with an ASRock B450M ITX board (Fatal1ty) but it's still a real pain having to put in a GPU to boot into BIOS. Was hoping this could fix that for me :(
- boring_twenties 6y ago
  Yeah, it's a real pain in the ass. I miss the workstations of yesteryear where you could do everything with just a serial console. Another example of technology actually getting worse over time. Even hardware that is made to be run headless ("server-class") is hopelessly broken. They give you a proprietary graphical console that isn't even just a VNC server but has to be accessed with a web browser. And, if the server is more than a few years old, some deprecated, unsupported plugin like Java or .NET will be required. I have an old Dell R710 whose remote console I will never be able to access, because it only works with Java 6 (or so I'm told, I'm certainly never trying that; I wouldn't even know where to begin to try to set that shit up.)
swuecho 6y ago
for some asrock mobo, headless is supported. my Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac is one of them.

swuecho 6y ago

you might want to upgrade your bios to get headless support. https://www.msi.com/blog/with-upcoming-amd-processors-and-combo-pi-bios-is-coming-on-msi-am4-300-400-and-500-series-motherboards https://www.msi.com/blog/with-upcoming-amd-processors-and-co... if you are kind enough to report back whether it works with the newest bios, that will be helpful to others