[rescue] Divide and conquer

Phil Schilling phils at gcstech.net
Thu Jul 24 12:51:33 CDT 2003


On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:29:26 -0400
Andrew Weiss <ajwdsp at cloud9.net> wrote:

> On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 06:47 AM, vance at neurotica.com wrote:
> >
> > There are many, many PC's that boot without a monitor.  Many of them,
> > however, won't boot without a keyboard.
> >
> > Peace...  Sridhar
> >
> 
> All PC's boot without a monitor... it's old Macs that don't boot 
> without a display on the sense pins... something that can be fooled 
> with a Mac to VGA adapter.

Have to disagree with the All PC's statement.  Their are newer ones that will just beep at you without the cable connected.  Some Dell's for instance and in fact one was a server.

Phil



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