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RDP, VNC on Windows 7 without video card

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PanteraGSTK

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As the title says. Is there a way to RDP or VNC without a video card? My server works fine with the video card in, but I don't need the card as I only VNC with UltraVNC, but after I remove the video card I get nothing.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks
 
Can you clarify on the problem? What do you mean by "I get nothing"?

The computer doesn't start up? Windows doesn't start up? Do you get an error message?
 
IIRC you cant use either RDP or VNC to display a GUI without a GPU (either onboard or add on) present.

If you have an open PCI slot, just hunt down a crappy PCI video card and toss it in. You dont need to have anything hardcore in place if you are just trying to display a terminal and explorer.
 
Can you clarify on the problem? What do you mean by "I get nothing"?

The computer doesn't start up? Windows doesn't start up? Do you get an error message?

Everything is running just fine. I get no video when VNC opens up. Server is running just fine.

IIRC you cant use either RDP or VNC to display a GUI without a GPU (either onboard or add on) present.

If you have an open PCI slot, just hunt down a crappy PCI video card and toss it in. You dont need to have anything hardcore in place if you are just trying to display a terminal and explorer.

The funny thing is I took out the crappy pci video card because that is the slot I need.

I was under the impression that UltraVNC had a video driver that would do exactly what I'm wanting. I'm going to put a video card back in today when I get home to see what I can find out.
 
Look into a bare-metal hypervisor; Microsoft Hyper-V on a Win2k8R2 server (not quite bare-metal), VMWare vSphere Server, XenServer. Build your server inside a virtual machine that has a virtual graphics card and you'll likely be able to RDC into it.
 
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