User Mode; Figure 2-5 User Mode; Table 2-3 Use Of The Video Controllers In User Mode - HP ProLiant xw2x220c - Blade Workstation Administrator's Manual

2-4 User Mode

When Remote Console Mode is set to User Mode, the boot console is, as usual, generated by the ATI video
controller. Following the booting of Windows, the NVIDIA graphics adapter generates the Windows desktop
(see Table 2-3 and Figure 2-5).
Table 2-3 Use of the video controllers in User Mode
ATI video controller
NVIDIA graphics adapter
In User Mode, the Windows desktop can only be viewed using RGS through NIC1 or NIC2. Because the ATI
video controller is inactive after Windows starts, the Windows desktop is not viewable on the Local I/O
Connector or through iLO 2.
Figure 2-5 User Mode
video
USB x 2
serial
As noted previously, the default setting of Remote Console Mode is User Mode. This enables custom Windows
images (loaded through processes such as PXE booting) to boot directly into User Mode without needing to
change Remote Console Mode from its default setting.
NOTE: In addition to viewing the Windows desktop generated by one of the video controllers, the Windows
desktop can also be viewed using Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection (RDC). For more information about
RDC, see Section 12-3,
These viewing methods cannot be used simultaneously. If RDC is started, the Windows desktop session
provided by the video controller is terminated and returns to a Windows login screen. If the user logs into
Windows while RDC is active, the RDC connection is terminated.
Usage during POST
Boot console
Note used
NVIDIA Quadro
FX graphics
adapter
User Mode
ATI RN50
video controller
(1280 x 1024)
"Remote Desktop Connection."
Usage after booting
Not used
Windows desktop
Windows
desktop
Dual Broadcom
5708 Ethernet
controllers
iLO 2
management
processor
The ATI video controller
is used during booting
but is not used after
Windows starts.
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NIC 1
NIC 2
iLO 2