Re: G4 Cube headless?

[John <jhu%grex.cyberspace.org@localhost>]

Well, I don't have a G4 Cube, but I do know the graphics card uses a 
miniscule amount of power compared to the rest of the systehm so there's 
really no reason to remove it if you're having such problems. The easiest 
way to measure this is to get one of those Kill-a-watt measuring devices 
if you don't already have one. For comparison, I have a Celeron 220-based 
mini-itx system that uses 40 watts idle including the 500 GB 7200 RPM 
harddrive.

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, André Schulze wrote:

> Hello,
>
> does anyone on this list have a G4 Cube that operates truly headless, that means
> with the graphic card removed? I use my Cube as a 24/7 home server and therefore
> power consumption is a real factor, so i thought it would be nice if this box
> could operate without the unneeded graphic card.
>
> Simply removing the card caused the system not to boot. Then i set
> input-device and output-device to scca and that caused the white LED to flash,
> and the cube entered an infinite reboot loop (LED flashing, disk making some 
> noise
> and then start over again).
>
> Any ideas what i could do to make it boot without the graphic card?
>
> Bye,
>
>    andre