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Boot with no video card

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ComputerDork

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I'm trying to boot a linux box (mandrake 8.0) without a video card installed. The mobo is an Asus P2B-F (intel BX chipset, award bios). I'm getting the beep code: long, short, short, short ... which is supposed to alert me of a video problem. Shouldn't it be possible to boot without a video card?
 
Standard setup page in your bios, display type.

EDIT:

OOPS! Sorry thinkin keyboard. Why don't you just disconnect the speaker until you need it for troubleshooting, if something goes wrong. You could enable SEEK FLOPPY to let you know the system is booting.

 
Well, I changed the "halt on" setting to: "No Errors". According to the manual, "This field determines which types of errors will cause the system to halt". So, I'm saying there are _no errors_ that will cause the system halt. Guess what ... it still halts! There has got to be a way. It's not like I'm the first person _ever_ to try to boot this mobo with no video.

 
Nope. ASUS boards (and the majority of other boards out there) MUST have a video card to boot.
 
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