using VNC with a monitor-less PC ?

[Neale NOON]

Greetings,

I'm running a "headless" NT box with VNC.

The stop at POST will be caused by a BIOS setting "stop on all errors" and
perhaps a corresponding BIOS entry "keyboard absent/present". Change these
and the thing will boot past POST.

NT will complain about no keyboard or mouse with an event log message about
not being able to load certain I/O support files. I have not had any adverse
side-effects from ignoring these and the NT box has been up for weeks. One
day I'll take the time to find out how to disable the device support so
there is no error reported.

Alternatively you can boot the machine with all its bits intact and just
walk away with the monitor, keyboard and mouse but some experts suggest you
can actually damage hardware this way.

Regards,
Neale NOON


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
[mailto:owner-vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com]On Behalf Of Scala, Lino
Sent: Saturday, 22 January 2000 07:25
To: 'vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com'
Subject: RE: using VNC with a monitor-less PC ?


this is my first post so please forgive me, I'm in a similar situation I
have a remote server (NT 4.0) and would love to remove both mouse and
keyboard, somebody keeps knocking down the keyboard and mouse and whenever
the server is rebooted it stops during POST so my question is: has anyone
found a way to plug some kind of device in both keyboard and mouse to fake
their presence?
Thanks

On 06:07 PM 01/21/2000 +0100, it would appear that Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
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