[GTALUG] war story: keyboard failure leads to sustained mayhem

[James Knott]

On 07/06/2015 09:10 AM, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> On 15-07-05 10:59 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>> - apparently I really only use the KVM for booting; it would be
>>    nice if PCs had been designed to be happy headless
>
> In older days (a few generations of PC ago) there used to be a BIOS
> setting where you could tell it to ignore keyboard errors. You would
> enable that feature if you wanted to run the computer without a
> keyboard. I haven't looked to see if such a feature still exists in
> modern day BIOS but I don't see why they would have removed the option
> unless it will ignore keyboard errors automatically.
>

I have 4 computers here, one with a year old motherboard.  3 of them can
run headless and the other, an old Compaq, I just leave an old keyboard
plugged in, but still access it via KVM.


Like I said, check the settings.