[rescue] intel wasteful?

Scott Newell newell at cei.net
Mon Jun 24 19:55:28 CDT 2002


>Hmm, I've never met a PeeCee board that didn't either fail post with bad 
>beep-codes, or just sit there and do nothing if it had no video.  But then 
>again, I've only been playing with PeeCees since the mid Eighties or so.
>Any particular brand or model you recommend for Headless use?

Here's a datapoint--I've got a p-pro board (asus) that will give a short
beep code and boot to floppy with no keyboard and no video card, provided
the bios is set to halt on no errors.  Tested not five minutes ago.  I
didn't try booting to the hard disk, but I don't see why it wouldn't.


newell



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