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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 Usage during POST Boot console Note used Usage after booting Not used Windows desktop 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 Local I/O Connector NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics adapter User Mode ATI RN50 video controller (1280 x 1024) Windows desktop Dual Broadcom 5708 Ethernet controllers iLO 2 management processor NIC 1 NIC 2 iLO 2 The ATI video controller is used during booting but is not used after Windows starts. 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, "Remote Desktop Connection." 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. Blade workstation video subsystem 19

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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
Usage during POST
Usage after booting
ATI video controller
Boot console
Not used
NVIDIA graphics adapter
Note used
Windows desktop
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
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, “
Remote Desktop Connection
.”
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.
Dual Broadcom
5708 Ethernet
controllers
iLO 2
management
processor
ATI RN50
video controller
(1280 x 1024)
NIC 1
NIC 2
iLO 2
NVIDIA Quadro
FX graphics
adapter
Windows
desktop
User Mode
The ATI video controller
is used during booting
but is not used after
Windows starts.
video
USB x 2
serial
Local I/O Connector