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oh that's what the google ai said could work, but being ai I didn't trust is XD. Thank you for that post. I just read through it and bookmarked the post that the guy posted there with kernel parameter info as well. I'll give that a shot later.

I'll look into that. I have a cheap kvm i was going to use for my main set up but it's only a 1080 60hz, so i never used it, so might give it a try. Would it make the nas think the "monitor" is always on, so it doesn't turn off the signal and switch to headless mode? Or would that be a setting in the bios setting i haven't found yet?

I only really thought about xeons was because server motherboard have that maintenance port thing that I figured would be easier to check in on the server. and finding a server motherboard for my cpu seems to be limited from what i looked up. Yea the only thing on the server right now is my dvd rips, books, and random docs. most of my stuff is backed up elseware. 3.2.1 back up protocol is something im looking into. right now its a 2.2.0 XD

Yes, I need to find something else to host it on, just don't have the funds right now. Trying to find some server grade mobo for my 6600 i5 to try to save some money. But might just have to go with a xeon something to have less of a head ache when I get the proper funds. This is mainly to get my feet wet and learn truenas and self hosting.

Sorry ment z170. Old intel i5 6600. And I'll look into that and see what goes into it

So, I have a few questions. 1. My server, an old 170z system 32 gig ram 1070 gpu, likes to randomly "freeze". It wont show up on the network, I cant ssh into it, and, as far as i can tell, the keyboard becomes unresponsive. The only thing i can do is a hard shutdown, which i do not like doing because its running off 4 nas HDD's and I know a hard shut down is not a fun thing for them. I'm sure its a hardware issue since my mobo is an old msi gaming z, that has the problem that it will thermal throttle the cpu even if its below 70C. I had to disable the temp monitoring in bios and it works good as "new". I'm wondering if this is an issue that is common or just something my system is doing. 2. Is there a way to get the system to show a display after the monitor turns off. My system shows a display when it first turns on, but as soon as i shut off the monitor and turn it back on; it will not display a picture until it is rebooted. I did a test today and shut off the monitor and turned it right back on and no signal. 3. If i buy a remote management pcie card can i hook it up to a laptop to monitor the system instead of having to ssh into it using command line? In tech youtuber videos they just walk up to their rack, open a laptop, and off they go doing stuff in their server. I only ask because of issue #1. with the system in headless mode; I cannot see what it is trying to do when it "freezes". I would like a way to be able to give it a command to restart.