running a server headless/keyboardless?
Ron Scott
ronjscott-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 9 04:19:49 UTC 2004
Hi:
Just checked my Compaq Deskpro 500 Mhz and my Deskpro 733 Mhz and was
surprised to find neither computer has a BIOS setting to set keyboard to
be not present.
Ron
Aaron Vegh wrote:
> Hi there,
> I have a Compaq Deskpro (Celeron 500) running as my home server. I've
> lately been running it headless -- no monitor, no keyboard or mouse --
> and shelling in to do any maintenance. Since it's been up for weeks, I
> haven't thought twice about it, till tonight when we had a power
> failure. That's when I realized that the box won't reboot unless it's
> got a keyboard plugged in.
>
> is there a way to disable that requirement, in the BIOS, for example?
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron.
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