On 9 Jul 2004, at 12:12, Tom Burke wrote:
Why would a Mac want to check the monitor status? Why not just start up and assume there's something out there? I queried all this at the time with someone and was got a reply 'this is happening because Macs are more intelligent than PCs', which on reflection I'm not too sure about - this is one instance where blind, stupid obedience to instructions (ie 'start up and push the video signal out through the VGA port') is exactly what's wanted! I think I was running an early version of OS X on the Cube (10.1.5?) or even MacOS 9, but in any case the refusal to start was occurring before the OS kicked in.
Any thoughts from anyone?
My Cube starts up quite happiy without a monitor and you can detatch and re-attatch the VGA cable without any freezes. More likely that the quirkiness was the fault of Belkin. And you should probably have kept the Cube if only as an investment.
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