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Re: Booting without a monitor: No Go



On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 01:02:01AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote:
| On 27 Dec 2002 00:49:30 -0600 Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
| > On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 23:31, Curtis Spencer wrote:

| > > I have done some more investigating with disconnecting the monitor
| > > at different times and it seems that once it passes the POST, I can
| > > disconnect the monitor and it will continue to boot up fine.  It
| > > seems that it needs the monitor at POST.  I think this is no longer
| > > a problem with debian, but perhaps someone might have an idea.  It
| > > is a Elsa Geforce 2 Vid Card by the way and KT7 Raid.
| > 
| > Is there a way, from the BIOS setup, to bypass POST, or do a "quick
| > POST"?
| 
| It's probably the video card bios halting when it can't configure itself
| to the 'detected' monitor (which isn't detected because it isn't there).

I think this is likely.  I can't boot this machine without a monitor
plugged in (SiS 6326 AGP video card).  The old Gateway2000 router I
have doesn't care if it has a monitor or not.

-D

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