Note that many BIOSes (if not all? there must be some out there..) will not
boot without
a display adapter. This doesn't mean you have to have a monitor. I built a 486
server at
home sans keyboard but I had to keep a display adapter in it. Fortunately I had
a
salvaged 286 with a plain vanilla 16
Most, if not all, newer BIOSes allow you to disable the keyboard check.
Monitor and mouse aren't checked, so no problem there. I have a 4-year
old 486 in my garage which I have run for months with no monitor, mouse or
keyboard running my packet radio station and do all the access via
ethernet. I
Hello,
In building a cluster, I'd like a motherboard/bios that supports a LAN
managed system. I'm looking to not use a keyboard, monitor, or mouse
after the initial set-up.
I'll be accessing these systems through the LAN by telnet etc. Do you
know if this is common, rare, whatever in MB's today
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