Server no video output

[nitroxygen]

I have asked this question a few times on the TureNAS forums but since this is a hardware problem I thought I would expand the area I ask this.

My problem is, my servers motherboard had a vga connector that broke and will no longer work. I recently bought a quadro p400 to try and get video output working. But as you can guess, it did not work right out of the box, showing a no signal on the display.

TrueNAS or freebsd dose support the drivers, and from what I have read the drivers for my gpu come included in truenas 12+. So I should have them. 

I can run some commands and I can see the gpu listed as installed hardware. 

Truenas blocks "pkg" command on the root system so I can't update the drivers and the command I keep seeing "nvidia-smi" says command not found. Also any command with Nvidia.

 

My motherboard dose not support IPMI so I can't use that.

The VGA port broke off the motherboard, a new one would have to be soldered back on, and I can't do that.

 

My main goal is to have a video output of the local machine, I'm worried that the server won't turn on for some reason and I won't be able to fix it without a display.

 

Dose anyone have a suggestion or something I could try?

 

Server info below.

 

OS: TrueNAS core 13.2

CPU: Intel Xeon CPU E3-1220 v5 @ 3.00GHz

Motherboard: X11SSL-O

Memory: 32GB

Hard Drives: 6 x 2TB WD RED

GPU: Nvidia Quadro P400

HBA: LSI 9302-8I SAS3008 (I.T. Mode)

Power Supply: Seasonic SS-500L2U 500W Single 2U Server Power Supply - 80PLUS Gold

Case: NORCO RPC-2008 2U

[manikyath]

the annoying thing is that server motherboards tend to default to on-board graphics because add-in GPU's are usually there for other reasons.

 

i was hoping the board had ipmi to access the igpu with, but it doesnt look like it.

[Guest]

Does your server have a USB port?

If so, try a USB to HDMI convertor, they're available for only a few bucks at WalMart.

 

And you do know that you can remote into your server for any maintenance needs.

[nitroxygen]

22 hours ago, Thomas4 said:

Does your server have a USB port?

If so, try a USB to HDMI convertor, they're available for only a few bucks at WalMart.

 

And you do know that you can remote into your server for any maintenance needs.

I have tried a USB to HDMI and it did not work. I am aware I can remote in but im worried if the network config gets messed up or if i update a OS and the OS wont boot. I cant remote in from that.