I’m gonna buy my first PC in 8 years, and I’m a little worried about picking a CPU without integrated graphics. I plan on using Windows 11. In the past several GPUs died on my, and the warranty process took weeks. I’d primarily use it for work, connecting to a VS Code server from my laptop. In case of a GPU death, will it complete the boot process properly (with autologin), so I can still use it remotely (via ssh from VS Code), or will it hang up because it doesn’t detect a GPU? And if it does, it happens on the BIOS level, or on Windows’ level?
Your PC will boot without a GPU. It will hang up on the BIOS level on SOME motherboards, there is an option you can toggle to prevent this. others it won’t. And you’d need it to load straight into windows so no password. You’d just simply have no display but you can still remote into it if everything was set up beforehand.
Or as others have said, simply get a CPU with integrated graphics that you can use until you replace the gpu. Most modern current gen cpu’s come with it.