win9x boot without video card

[kleinesarschloch]

has anyone had experience booting winme or win9x without video card? the machine boots up fine, and i can access files over the network, but a program that was supposed to run at startup (winamp, HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\run) never starts. when i install a video card everything works just fine. any suggestions appreciated.

specs:

winme running on P5 166mhz
qdi p5i430vx motherboard
64mb ram
2.4gig hd
soundblaster awe 64
generic nic
matrox millenium II

 

[mikecel79]

hmmm never tried this before. I'm willing to be that the Explorer shell won't start without a video card installed so that's why your program never runs.

 

[IamDavid]

I know there is a way to make the CPU think a monitor is present when not but I never heard of anything like this before. Interesting though.

 

[kleinesarschloch]

Originally posted by: mikecel79
hmmm never tried this before. I'm willing to be that the Explorer shell won't start without a video card installed so that's why your program never runs.

i don't think it's because of the explorer shell. i tried booting with winamp as shell, with no success. with the video card it works just fine.

 

[AndyHui]

Have you switched off the visualisations, including the very small built in one?

 

[kleinesarschloch]

Originally posted by: AndyHui
Have you switched off the visualisations, including the very small built in one?

yes