[Poweredge 2800] graphic card

Poweredge2800,

The 2800 doesn't support using 3rd party graphics cards in place of the embedded video. This is based on the 2800 BIOS not having the option to disable the Embedded Video, as some of the more recent models have. 

Let me know if this helps answer your question, despite not being the answer you were likely wanting to hear. 

hi there Chris,

In this model there are two vga inputs one one th back and one the front. Problem is that probably during remote drac card installation within plug on i had to somehow mess up back vga port therefore after reboot system after Remote card detected message system is rebooting again and again and again. I plugged in vga cable to the front vga port and then there is no problem. I could use it like this but then resolution is really small on windows 1024x768 - if i change it for instance to 1280 then its saved but then screen is sizeable... When i used to use back vga port i could change resolution to this size without situation screen became scalable. Sumarizing all of this i thought maybe i could buy additional graphic card.

It sounds like there is an issue with the Drac 4 installed in the server. The Drac4 is going to be required to achieve 1024x768 resolution on the server. Could you power down the server and try reseating the Drac 4 card to see if that helps?  Also, would you verify if the Drac is accessible via the Ctrl-E prompt (on startup) as well?

i reainstalled graphical driver, but after restart even if the vga is plugged in in the front of the server causing reebot after message: "Remote card detected". Funy things is i can access drac website (sometimes system is going further for instance to Logical/phisical drive info) - then it stacks but from my laptop i can access drac...What is going on with it?

P.S by the way before i bought this card i have option ctrl+e and there i was able to put some ip ...

now after install drac card i have option ctrl+ D and there i configure the card, so in fact i dont know for what is ctrl + e (bmc) if i have ctrl+d (drac)

I just removed drac card, and now its seems no reboot is going on, system is running correctly and inside system i am able to make resolution up. Does it mean my drac is damaged or something - what then it has to do with vga?:O

Next investigation:

I used red button on drac card , after that system was not rebotted again but correctly loaded the system. And now inside the system i noticed that my resolution went back to 1024x768 ... :O i go to resoltuion option and saw now only one possibility 1024x768  How this can be possible??? It means then drac will work correctly but inside windows server it sets somehow graphic card to 1024 and controlling it and if i will not do anything with that i will not have reboting problem but system will goes 1024, and if i would reset graphic driver then drac on reboot will cause error?? Can someone explain me it? This is as far as i noticed that till now.