asus b250 Mining expert: to view BIOS does one use the 16X slot with external graphics or HDMI?

[ramessesvi]

I would like to do a minimal setup to get to BIOS for my b250 mining board with just main power 24 pin ATX, cpu power 8 pin ATX, and the cpu/fan.

Where do I get the signal for the external monitor (On some boards like asrock H110 pro btc+ you must set the BIOS to read the PCIE slots)? Can I use the HDMI slot or do I need to install a graphics card at the PCIE-16x slot?


Also, when I start using the PCIE slots, if I install 1 graphics card, must I use the PWR connector AUXPWR_A1 or is that meant to be used when all seven of the graphics cards are filled in the "A" slots?

 

[QwerkyPengwen]

no motherboard that I know of has on board graphics. what you would consider on board graphics is integrated graphics. and that is inside the CPU itself. and unless you are using a 2000 series AMD Ryzen such as the 2400 you won't be getting integrated graphics.

 

[volkgren]

It used to be that integrated graphics chips were on the motherboard. No longer do they do that. Now they put the iGPU on the CPU.

B250 is Intel, and most Intel CPUs (except Xeon) have integrated graphics. For mining people typically use the integrated graphics to connect a their monitor and it depends on the motherboard connections as to what type of connector you would use.

 

[Karadjgne]

You are mining, using a mining mobo with how many gpus? And you can't plug a monitor into one of them just to get things started? Video/windows itself takes next to nothing for an igpu/dgpu to power, and any mining pc has plenty of gpu power available.

Just enable the monitor to sleep mode after a few minutes of idle, basically the same as if it was not hooked up in the first place.

Unless you enable multi monitor connections in bios/windows power settings, then any discrete gpu usage for a monitor will disable the cpu/APU igpu automatically.

 

[QwerkyPengwen]

my bad. I saw the B at the beginning and I defaulted to the B350 in my brain. why do Intel and AMD have to borrow each others naming schemes for the chipset? makes it harder for people to keep things straight.

not sure what you are asking? why would you want/need to disable the iGPU? that'll be what gets you visuals on a monitor for running your miner. But, if you want to disable it, then it'll be buried somewhere in the BIOS settings. It's in different places on different brands, typically for ASUS, it's located under the advanced settings, under AI Tweaker, and somewhere in there under another setting. I honestly cannot remember where even it is in my ASUS board since I set it to be on for multi monitor (so I can have a second monitor for multitasking that doesn't take away from my GPU power for gaming) and then forgot it.