Apple Remote Desktop - ARD Not active

[kradalby]

Hi

I have just bought a powermac late 2005 and im planning using it as a Mac OS X Server, but i have one problem, it doesnt have a proper working graphic card.

well the plan is to install mac os x and ARD, which i got working, i can restart the machine one time, but the third time i restart it, i can only connect thru ssh or ping it, in Apple Remote Desktop it just say ARD is inactive.
How can i solve this? i am looking for a graphics card, but i still want it to work...

Thank you for all help!

- Kristoffer

 

[Consultant]

ARD works fine for me.

Did you do a clean install of the OS?

Graphics card available at OWC (http://www.macsales.com)

 

[kradalby]

Thank u, but i think those cards would be overkill do u know where i can get the older card for cheap, please dont say ebay

im thinking of 6600, 7200 and the other low cheap cards

im just using it as a server i have another desktop!

Anyone on the ARD problem?

 

[Consultant]

Then you don't need a card. I run my MBP headless.

Did you repair permissions, update to 3.3, etc?

Try Craigslist locally.

 

[kradalby]

hmm, well i have tried as many startup methods i could think of, and im not any longer

Its the same, i take the harddrive out of the machine, connects it to mine, loads it with an clean install image of leopard server 10.5.8, the first time i always get in, of all my 4 reloads of the hardrive image, i have got in the second time to times, and i never can connect with ARD the third, or any other graphic ways...

I can always ping and connect thru SSH, but not VNC or Logmein or ARD.

I wonder if there is a error message i cant se because i dont get graphical local or on remote... i know it has kernel paniced once before and that it was the graphic cards fault. maybe i should try witout the graphic card inserted? or wont it start then?

I have been in chat with a some of my countries mac resellers (norway) and one of them whanted 350 dollars for a ATI Radeon 9200 which is very old. and i think it dont even fit because its AGP.

Hope someone got some new ideas or can confirm that for example the graphics card out could work...

Best regards
Kristoffer