Re: Booting without VGA card

[Crispin Murphy <crispin@myra.com>]

Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> Ken Yap writes:
> | A lot of PC BIOSes don't like booting up without some sort of video
> | card. Try installing some obsolete video card, just good enough to
> pass
> | the POST. You don't need a video monitor of course.
>            
> ----------------------------------------
> Not always, a friend's VGA card required a monitor to be plugged in
> to work.
That's a common trait of S3 based cards.  I think the code is 3 short
beeps and one long one...

Crispin
 

 

Doug A.
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