using VNC with a monitor-less PC ?

[Roby Van Hoye]

Disconnecting and reconnecting a minitor can damage a video-card, a friend
of mine learnt this the hard way (blown video card, complete with smoke and
smell)

At 08:34 22/01/00 +1100, Neale NOON wrote:
>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:
>>[trim]
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Roby.


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