Re: [SLUG] headless servers

[Sonia Hamilton <sonia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 23:54 +1100, Bruce Bruen wrote:
> Some time ago, it used to be possible to "convince" certain BIOS versions that 
> they had a keyboard attached by shorting the PS/2 pins 3 & 4 with a 100K 
> resistor.  Trying it today with a "certain" (Compaq Presario desktop P3) box, 
> it doesn't seem to work.
> 
> This is a typical Compaq ATX board (and by that I dont mean typical). Anyone 
> got any good ideas?

If what you're trying to achieve is booting a machine without an
attached keyboard, many BIOS's allow you to boot and "ignore errors".

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