New XPC: No video, no ethernet link, but drive spins

Posted by Mike Pennington on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Mike Pennington
Published on 2012-06-12T03:16:41Z Indexed on 2012/06/12 4:42 UTC
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I bought a Shuttle XPC SH67H3 with integrated video. I installed:

  • An Intel i5 2450P
  • 16GB DDR3 RAM
  • A SATA hard drive from my old linux server that still is bootable

I have both power connectors plugged into the motherboard.

I realize that the Intel i5-2450P doesn't have video capabilities; however, the drive spins like it's doing something useful. It seems like I should get an ethernet link light when I fire this up. I plan to run this headless anyway, so it would be really nice if I could figure out how to run this without a video card at all. I know the IP address and login info for the linux install on the disk.

I plugged in speakers, but get no bios beeps when I power it up. Shuttle's bios manual has nothing in there that indicates I should have problems in this configuration.

My questions:

  • Is there a reason that the missing video card would block usage of the ethernet port?
  • Are there settings on the motherboard / bios I can change to get this working?

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