booting w/out graphic card or keyboard

[audiophan]

put together some spare parts i had laying around into a machine for the dc project eccp. being so i didn't have an extra keyboard/mouse/video card and the motherboard doesn't have onboard video.

now to the question, how do i boot without the aformentioned parts. i just get beeps when booting which tells me that it didn't boot.

some helpful info:
ECS K7VZM board rev 1.1 or something low like that
Award Bios
WinXP, or win98se possible to install

 

[Tsaico]

for the keyboard part, you can set it to ignore the "no keyboard error" and as far as the vid car is concerned, I beelive the beep code you are given is telling you there is a video error, which there is, caseu you don't have one. THough I do have this question, with out any display, or keyboard, how will you be able to enter in basic information like the cd-key/activation codes, or even just the "ok" button? Even a basic cheapy vid car with 1 meg is enough, and those can be had here for less than 10 bucks and a keyboard can be had for abotu 10 also. So buck up and buy antoher $20 bucks worth of stuff...

 

[jfunk]

You can't boot without video.



j

 

[MoMeanMugs]

jfunk is correct. I have a cheap ISA video card you can have to get ya going if you pay shipping.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< for the keyboard part, you can set it to ignore the "no keyboard error" and as far as the vid car is concerned, I beelive the beep code you are given is telling you there is a video error, which there is, caseu you don't have one. THough I do have this question, with out any display, or keyboard, how will you be able to enter in basic information like the cd-key/activation codes, or even just the "ok" button? Even a basic cheapy vid car with 1 meg is enough, and those can be had here for less than 10 bucks and a keyboard can be had for abotu 10 also. So buck up and buy antoher $20 bucks worth of stuff... >>



serial connections are enough to run server OSes (most UNIXish OSes). And linux would be great for this setup. Booting without video really depends on the harware I believe. I dont have a keyboard/mouse on my Linux machine and it boots just fine.

 

[audiophan]

thanks for the offer MoMeanMugs but no isa slots

see i've been thinking about installing linux on a machine but i don't think im comfortable enough with it yet, but this might be my breaking point. then again getting el cheapo vidcard seems easy enough

 

[iamwiz82]

<< You can't boot without video.



j >>



absolutely wrong. I have a Dell Dimension here with a V3 3000 and it just booted up without the video card. I even got the music Win98 plays when it loads.

 

[DaiShan]

Iamwiz, I am curious as to how you did this, did you have to disable something? normally you just get beep codes during POST until you power off and insert a video card.

 

[audiophan]

<< Iamwiz, I am curious as to how you did this, did you have to disable something? normally you just get beep codes in bios until you power off and insert a video card. >>



i can verify this, thats what i was recieving

 

[n0cmonkey]

I think it partially depends on hardware.