{"id":2399,"date":"2014-11-19T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T10:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2014-11-19T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T10:39:21","slug":"blkde3815tykh0e-headaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/2014\/11\/blkde3815tykh0e-headaches\/","title":{"rendered":"BLKDE3815TYKH0E headaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>we&#8217;re setting up a small computer that will act as vpn end-point. we decided to try something smaller this time &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/ark.intel.com\/products\/78577\/Intel-NUC-Kit-DE3815TYKHE\">BLKDE3815TYKH0E<\/a>. as it turned out it&#8217;s not as well polished as one would expect from intel.<\/p>\n<p>my colleagues had to pull out debian wheezy usb pend-rive with the installer to be able to finish the installation process, but that&#8217;s not a big deal &#8211; might be an issue with d-i itself.<\/p>\n<p>but&#8230; with the latest BIOS version [ 036 at the time of writing ] &#8211; the divce will not boot without VGA or HDMI device connected to it. apparently it&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/communities.intel.com\/message\/253503\">general problem with NUCs<\/a> &#8211; they don&#8217;t work well headless. one solution we&#8217;ve found is <a href=\"http:\/\/jermdavis.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/16\/fun-with-nuc-servers\/\">to attach &#8216;HDMI to VGA converter&#8217;<\/a>, another &#8211; that might work &#8211; is to add <a href=\"https:\/\/rumorscity.com\/2013\/12\/06\/how-to-create-dummy-plugs-for-your-graphics-cards\/\">3 resistors on the VGA port<\/a>. we did not try either of those. but based on <a href=\"https:\/\/communities.intel.com\/message\/253503#253504\">this post<\/a> older BIOSes don&#8217;t suffer from that problem. my colleague started downgrading and he found out that the latest headless-working version is 024. it just makes me wonder what sort of other bugs did we unleash by the downgrade.<\/p>\n<p>btw &#8211; installation of debian on eMMC went fine &#8211; so in theory we did not need a hard disk at all. for us 4GB of space on the built-in flash disk are more than enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we&#8217;re setting up a small computer that will act as vpn end-point. we decided to try something smaller this time &#8211; BLKDE3815TYKH0E. as it turned out it&#8217;s not as well polished as one would expect from intel. my colleagues had to pull out debian wheezy usb pend-rive with the installer to be able to finish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51],"tags":[88,6],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-unimportant","tag-hardware","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}