I built a WHS on an old Dell Dimension 4100 I had laying around. It is working well except for one issue. I don't need the machine to be on 24/7 and I tried to use the LightsOut add-in to put the machine to sleep at night. I won't sleep the machine because the generic driver for the (extremely old) S3 Virge video card in the machine won't allow sleep. I tried a newer Matrox card I had laying around and couldn't find a driver that would work properly either.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a cheap AGP (or even PCI) video card I could put in the box that has driver support for WHS and will allow it to sleep? I see some posts here suggesting that it's not even necessary to have a video card in the WHS, is that true? The odd thing is that I used to run Windows XP on this same hardware and it went to sleep without any issues, but I guess that's a result of the drivers.
I am having trouble finding a reasonably priced card that offers Windows 2003 (WHS) drivers.
I built a WHS on an old Dell Dimension 4100 I had laying around. It is working well except for one issue. I don't need the machine to be on 24/7 and I tried to use the LightsOut add-in to put the machine to sleep at night. I won't sleep the machine because the generic driver for the (extremely old) S3 Virge video card in the machine won't allow sleep. I tried a newer Matrox card I had laying around and couldn't find a driver that would work properly either.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a cheap AGP (or even PCI) video card I could put in the box that has driver support for WHS and will allow it to sleep? I see some posts here suggesting that it's not even necessary to have a video card in the WHS, is that true?
Yes (after installing the OS of course).
The odd thing is that I used to run Windows XP on this same hardware and it went to sleep without any issues, but I guess that's a result of the drivers.
I am having trouble finding a reasonably priced card that offers Windows 2003 (WHS) drivers.
Thanks.
Peter
Marked as answer byruadogThursday, September 3, 2009 11:13 AM
I built a WHS on an old Dell Dimension 4100 I had laying around. It is working well except for one issue. I don't need the machine to be on 24/7 and I tried to use the LightsOut add-in to put the machine to sleep at night. I won't sleep the machine because the generic driver for the (extremely old) S3 Virge video card in the machine won't allow sleep. I tried a newer Matrox card I had laying around and couldn't find a driver that would work properly either.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a cheap AGP (or even PCI) video card I could put in the box that has driver support for WHS and will allow it to sleep? I see some posts here suggesting that it's not even necessary to have a video card in the WHS, is that true?
Yes (after installing the OS of course).
The odd thing is that I used to run Windows XP on this same hardware and it went to sleep without any issues, but I guess that's a result of the drivers.
I am having trouble finding a reasonably priced card that offers Windows 2003 (WHS) drivers.
Thanks.
Peter
Marked as answer byruadogThursday, September 3, 2009 11:13 AM
kariya21 - Thanks so much for that. I removed the video card from the device manager and then physically removed it from the machine and now it sleeps and hibernates with no problems.
