Posted on: 2013-02-25 | Categories: Uncategorized
We often use inexpensive DELL PowerEdge T110 II servers as workstations. This however requires installation of PCIe graphics card as on-board chip is not capable of driving bigger screens in multi-head set ups. Unfortunately one of recently purchased machines ignored all cards we were trying to use (which worked perfectly well in other ones). It turned out the issue was related to the version of BIOS and solution to the problem was downgrade to 2.0.5 which can be found here.
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John Blue
July 26, 2013 20:58
Hi, I have been looking for a video card that can work with my PowerEdge T100 II for a long time, but unfortunately couldn’t find one. do you mind share some info here please?
Which card(s) do you install on your servers?
BTW, I’m in the USA .
Thank you
JB.
Chris
July 27, 2013 10:03
Hi John,
We use NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450 (quad display port) and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 310 (dual diplay port) cards.
Best regards,
Chris
Andy
February 26, 2015 23:47
Just upgraded to a T110 II but had the surprise that couldn’t use my other monitors. I have windows server 2008 R2. Would a NVS 450 have no problem then? Scared of the 25W max I have read out there and the NVS 450 says its 35W max power consumption.
Can you clear that out for me?
Chris
February 27, 2015 06:54
Hi, for us NVS 450 (rev a1) + 4 screens works just fine for over a year now. Albeit in Linux OS, so can’t say for sure how it will behave with Windows drivers.
Andy
February 27, 2015 09:00
Thanks.
Guess what matters is the CPU? or the OS makes a difference? If not thinking of the NVS310 or a Radeon 5450.
Andy
February 27, 2015 09:03
Sorry, meant the power source. Which is only 200W. The NVS450 is supposed to be 35W and the NVS310 19W…being supposedly the T110 25W max…
manos_k
March 9, 2015 20:33
Well, sorry but is it or is it not to use a graphics card 4th or greater on the t110? I want to use it for CAD purposes… Thank you.
Chris
March 21, 2015 05:43
Well, I use Nvidia + 4x 24″ screens on t110 for the last few years without any problem. However as you can read in comments above some people are reporting issues, so in general I would say use graphics workstation for CAD, not a server machine.
Norrie
July 7, 2015 19:55
Hi, sorry to reply to such an old thread but what version of Linux are you running? I’ve tried a quadro and a a GT210 and I wasn’t able to get the nvidia drivers to work. The display is terrible.
Chris
July 7, 2015 20:08
Hi, I use proprietary nvidia driver v. 304.51 with Linux Mint Maya (based on Ubuntu Precise), my /etc/X11/xorg.conf for Quadro NVS 450 + 4x 24″ DELL screens below below:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 304.51 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-08.nvidia.com) Tue Sep 18 18:26:36 PDT 2012
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "BaseMosaic" "True"
Option "MetaModes" "GPU-1.DFP-0: 1920x1200+1920+1200, GPU-0.DFP-1: 1920x1200+0+1200, GPU-0.DFP-0: 1920x1200+0+0, GPU-1.DFP-1: 1920x1200+1920+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Serverflags"
Option "DontZap" "yes"
EndSection