So Everything Went Wrong

Finally performed my server upgrade with some upsetting conclusions. I realized I only had a 430W power supply in there, not wanting to:

a) buy a new psu

or

b) overload my existing psu, i decided to forego putting my gtx 1070 in there for video transcoding.

This is when I made a terrible discovery. I had no idea that if your cpu did not have integrated graphics, you require a gpu. This machine runs headless and I usually ssh into it. I didn’t see the need for integrated graphics. However without a gpu the machine cannot post.

Queue my run to best buy to get a 650w psu to shove in this fucker so i could put my 1070 in safely. It’s finally up and running with a new semi-modular psu, and i’ve got several transcoding jobs queued. phew.

As a bonus, as part of this upgrade my gaming pc got some love. It now has wifi and bluetooth thanks to a new motherboard and it also has a ryzen 5 5600x3d which should improve my star citizen experience immensely.