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Only boots when monitor is connected (don't want that!)
Hi, all.
I want to control "box A" and "box B" from my laptop via VNC. I have no keyboard or monitor plugged into box A or box B -- only power and ethernet.
This works just fine on box B, but box A only boots if a monitor is plugged into it. I looked through the bios settings, and found nothing helpful.
Box A:
Asus A7M266 mobo / Award Medallion BIOS v 6.0 / 1.33 GHz Athlon C / nVidia GeForce 2 in AGP slot.
Any ideas??
Thanks!
-WW
I want to control "box A" and "box B" from my laptop via VNC. I have no keyboard or monitor plugged into box A or box B -- only power and ethernet.
This works just fine on box B, but box A only boots if a monitor is plugged into it. I looked through the bios settings, and found nothing helpful.
Box A:
Asus A7M266 mobo / Award Medallion BIOS v 6.0 / 1.33 GHz Athlon C / nVidia GeForce 2 in AGP slot.
Any ideas??
Thanks!
-WW
Some PCs simply won't boot unless there is a keyboard attached to the system. If it doesn't find one during it's POST, it will either beep continuously, or just sit there. It's not an elegant solution, but try attaching a keyboard to A and see if it will boot then.
ASKER
Well, actually I solved the keyboard part of my problem and never mentioned it here. In the bios, there is a setting to ignore keyboard error. So as it is now, if a monitor is connected and NO keyboard is connected, it boots up just fine. But if there is no monitor connected it won't boot. Not even a beep, or post, or anything. Just silence (except for fans) and a black screen (if I plug in a monitor afterwards to see what's happening).
-Rob
-Rob
Remove agp card.
If you dont need vga it doesnt matter.
Then change bios setting to onboard, or whatever. Play a while with that.
If you dont need vga it doesnt matter.
Then change bios setting to onboard, or whatever. Play a while with that.
ASKER
Wouldn't I have to set the bios, THEN remove the agp card ?? ;-) (there's no onboard viseo in this MB.)
Will give that a try. Thanks.
-Rob
Will give that a try. Thanks.
-Rob
oh! i didnt know that...
well then again, switch the card, get a cheap one, nvidia always gives that kind of trouble when no monitor is connected.
GLuck
well then again, switch the card, get a cheap one, nvidia always gives that kind of trouble when no monitor is connected.
GLuck
ASKER
Someone out there suggested attaching a Mac --> VGA adapter (or shorting pins 4 & 11 on the vga port). Will try this and report back.
Thanks to all.
-WW
Thanks to all.
-WW
ASKER
Update:
Well, none of the above seemed to work, so I just connected the computer to my KVM, with no monitor on the other end. I wanted to avoid having to do it this way, but it boots. It's a bandaid fix, but I guess it will do until I can figure this out.
Thanks for all replies.
Well, none of the above seemed to work, so I just connected the computer to my KVM, with no monitor on the other end. I wanted to avoid having to do it this way, but it boots. It's a bandaid fix, but I guess it will do until I can figure this out.
Thanks for all replies.
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