I just (accidentally) discovered something.
The Tyan T1854 PIII Motherboards we have at work will boot without a video card installed!!!
I had a ati rage IIc go bad so I pulled it, and turned on the computer to see if the bios beeps changed. Nope no change, but....
Just for sh1ts and g1ggles I try sshing in to the machine (linux squid server)
It works great
The machine is still handing out DHCP addresses, still doing wonderful.
Huh?
I thought you needed video to boot?
Is this peculiar to this system? to tyan boards?
Can you make any motherboard boot without video?
The Tyan T1854 PIII Motherboards we have at work will boot without a video card installed!!!
I had a ati rage IIc go bad so I pulled it, and turned on the computer to see if the bios beeps changed. Nope no change, but....
Just for sh1ts and g1ggles I try sshing in to the machine (linux squid server)
It works great
The machine is still handing out DHCP addresses, still doing wonderful.
Huh?
I thought you needed video to boot?
Is this peculiar to this system? to tyan boards?
Can you make any motherboard boot without video?
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