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title: "Erasing without a display adapter"
canonical: "https://support.blancco.com/space/KB/11633014/Erasing%20without%20a%20display%20adapter"
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| **Created date** | **Updated date** | **Affects versions** | **Fix version** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1/1/2017 | 1/4/2023 | Drive Eraser All versions | N/A |


<span style="color: #000000">Blancco Drive Eraser can be booted and used without a display adapter, but it must be remotely controlled via an on-premise Blancco Management Console.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">The following requirements must be met:</span>

1. <span style="color: #000000">The process has to be set as "Manual".</span>
  - <span style="color: #000000">Default erasure process, this can also be configured via the</span><span style="color: #003366"> </span>[<span style="color: #003366">Drive Eraser Configuration Tool (DECT)</span>](https://go.docs.blancco.com/wiki/spaces/KB/pages/11633297)<span style="color: #003366">.</span>
2. <span style="color: #000000">The Blancco Drive Eraser image has to be remotely controlled via the Blancco Management Console and the correct communication settings have to be in place.</span>
  - <span style="color: #000000">This can be configured via the DECT by setting the option </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Process control </span>**<span style="color: #000000">to 'Blancco Management Console remote' under the </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Process </span>**<span style="color: #000000">-tab and having the correct settings pointing to your on-premise Management Console under the </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Communication </span>**<span style="color: #000000">-tab.</span>  
  
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  - <span style="color: #000000">If the communication settings are not correct, Blancco Drive Eraser will run, but it will not be able to receive any orders from the BMC.</span>
  - <span style="color: #000000">BMC can start the erasure remotely, monitor it and fetch the erasure report in the end.</span>
  - <span style="color: #000000">Any other configuration will result in a non-functional Blancco Drive Eraser image.</span>

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